Research has found air pollution caused by burning fossil fuels such as coal and oil was responsible for 8.7 million deaths globally in 2018, which equates to one in five of all people who died tha...
Work on the UK's first deep coal mine in more than 30 years could begin this year after it was given the go-ahead by the county council in Cumbria and Robert Jenrick, Housing Secretary.
The...
Robert Jenrick has suggested a number of changes that could be made to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF), including placing more importance on beauty and placemaking.
The new pr...
The UK Government has been criticised by the Public Accounts Committee for a "painfully slow" progress towards protecting the environment.
The spending watchdog pointed out that the first p...
Building Safety Minister, Lord Stephen Greenhalgh, has said that some owners are still yet to start work on dangerous Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) buildings.
A 68-year-old is in prison after repeated waste offences spanning the course of the last decade.
The man, from Corby, was responsible for an illegal waste site that put human health and the...
The Environment Agency has seen an increase in the amount of illegal fishing devices found along East Anglian river banks, with 52 retrieved between March and December...
Two workers have sustained serious injuries after falling from a tower scaffold while working for Rooffabs Direct Limited.
The sole director of the company, Paul McMahon, was working with t...
A worker has been seriously injured after having their hand caught in a metalworking lathe.
The accident occurred when an employee of Martland Rollers Limited had been smoothing down a...
Cameron House Resort in Loch Lomond was fined £500,000 and its employee Christopher O'Malley was given a community payback order to carry out 300 hours of unpaid work.
In ea...
The world's energy watchdog have said moving away from coal needs to be a priority in key regions.
The head of the world's energy watchdog emphasised that if global green recovery is to mak...
The landmark Environment Bill, which was launched in July 2018, has been postponed following the debate in the House of Commons due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which sparked a...
A long-awaited new Waste Management Plan for England has been published on 27 January 2021.
The Waste (England and Wales) Regulations SI 2011/988 require the Governm...
An appeal concerning a plan to deliver 258 new homes has been dismissed after an inspector believed the building would not create a balanced community.
The land in Kennington, which is...
Miners' houses can be seen across England to this day. Originally built to house miners near to the collieries in which they worked, these houses are a tangible link to our industrial past.
