After nearly five decades as one of western Europe's most polluting power plants, Drax power plant in Yorkshire will stop burning coal in March 2021.
The move comes well before the Governme...
The expansion of Heathrow airport in the form of a third runway has been ruled illegal by the Court of Appeal on the grounds of climate change.
The controversial plan, which has been o...
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have launched a consultation to seek views on a new First Homes scheme that aims to deliver discounted homes for local people to improve ho...
JP Morgan Chase have announced that it will end fossil fuel loans for Arctic oil drilling and begin to phase out loans for coal mining by 2024 under new green pledge.
The bank is prohibitin...
A waste management company, Peter Norris (Haulage) Ltd has been fined £140,000 after an agency worker suffered lower leg amputation after being struck by a moving excavator.
Westminst...
The City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled proposals to transform Edinburgh's largest brownfield site at Granton Waterfront into a new coastal town.
Central to this £1.3 bil...
Residents were contemplating taking legal action over An Bord Pleanála’s decision to approve more than 650 flats, in blocks up to nine storeys tall, in north Dublin.
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Research undertaken by the Local Government Association (LGA) has discovered that over one million homes, which have all been granted planning permission, are not being built. The analysis found th...
Wessex Water offered to pay an enforcement undertaking of £35,000 towards environmental improvements at Stoborough Heath nature reserve after a sewer main burst in January 2018, which po...
A self-employed gas fitter has been jailed following unsafe work on gas appliances while unregistered.
In November 2014 the gas fitter was handed a Prohibition Notice by the
In 2018, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs consulted on the cleaner domestic burning of solid fuels and wood in England. The proposals in that consultat...
On 17 February 2020 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy confirmed a £1.2 bn investment for a state-of-the-art supercomputer to help predict severe weather and the...
A car retailer based in the South East of England has been fined after a car bodywork sprayer developed occupational asthma.
West Hampshire Magistrates' Court heard that in October 2011 and...
A recent investigation carried out by BBC Wales revealed that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) breached health and safety laws 40 times and 148 service personnel have died during training ex...
A man from Kent has been fined over £1,700 for unlicensed fishing and public order offences.
The man had pleaded not guilty to charges of unlicensed fishing and using threatening, abu...
