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Hazardous Waste: Guidance for Employers
New rules on dealing with hazardous waste will significantly impact on all businesses, but Government has been accused of failing to inform employers on how the changes will affect them. Regula... | briefing | 28 Jul 2004 2:08PM

New Landfill Regulations for Scotland - Details
The Landfill (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (SSI 2003 No. 208) came into force on 21 March 2003. This sets out a pollution control regime for landfills for the purpose of implementing the Landfill Dir... | briefing | 8 Apr 2003 12:16PM

Corporate social responsibility: An update
On 14 May 2002 the Government published its second annual report on corporate social responsibility (CSR). It sets out the Government's strategy to help promote and enable socially responsible beha... | briefing | 5 Jun 2002 12:11PM

Liquid Wastes and Pollution
Most premises generate some form of liquid waste such as sewage, waste chemicals, cleaning effluents and contaminated surface run-off. As it is an offence to pollute accidentally or deliberately, f... | briefing | 30 Jul 2001 5:12PM

Climate Change Levy
The Climate Change Levy, which is a tax on commercial energy users, will come into force from April 2001.The tax is designed to be approximately proportional to the amount of carbon dioxide produce... | briefing | 1 Jan 2001 3:03PM

Employer fined and ordered to pay clean up costs for river pollution
A Tredegar company has had to pay over £30,000 after pleading guilty to polluting the Nant y Bwch and River Sirhowy in June 2007, which killed 13,000 fish, aquatic insects and a kingfisher. A... | case | 7 Dec 2007 7:50AM

Pollution costs York farmer £10,000
North Yorkshire farmer Ian Armitage has been fined £7,000 plus costs by York Magistrates after pleading guilty to allowing manure-contaminated water to pollute a three kilometre stretch of th... | case | 3 Dec 2007 8:29AM

Northumbrian Water fined for polluting watercourse
Northumbrian Water were fined £2,000 on 23 November at Durham Magistrates Court after pleading guilty to polluting Belmont Burn, a small tributary of the River Wear. Northumbrian Water w... | case | 28 Nov 2007 8:32AM

Environmental licences withdrawn
The Environment Agency has withdrawn the environmental licences of two Birmingham based companies, Keith Rollins trading as UK Oils at Dollman Street in Aston and KR Environmental Limited at W... | case | 6 Nov 2007 8:15AM

Yorkshire Water fined £12,000 for sewage in brook
Yorkshire Water has been fined £12,000 at Halifax Magistrates’ Court after pleading guilty to breaking a consent to discharge into the Hebble Brook, Halifax. Yorkshire Water Servic... | case | 5 Nov 2007 4:58PM

Businesses fined £3.5m for breaking environmental laws
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Are Training Courses Costing You Too Much Money?
Workplace Law Training can work with you to cut the cost of training and save the time your people spend away from the workplace. How? Simply by putting courses together specifically tailored to... | network news | 2 Apr 2004 10:11AM

Changes to groundwater regulations proposed
Changes to the UK’s groundwater regulations have been proposed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Groundwater is the water that runs through soil and... | news | 29 May 2008 1:53PM

Pollution incidents "are costly and can be avoided"
Construction and maintenance companies who work in or near watercourses are being reminded of the expense a pollution incident can cause, and that incidents can be avoided in the first place by car... | news | 18 Feb 2008 10:28AM

Action to prevent climate change 'could be damaging'
A report from sustainable development charity Forum for the Future has warned organisations to think about the big picture before they make decisions about clean energy strategies. The report, laun... | news | 8 Jan 2008 11:23AM

TUC: ten resolutions to make workplaces greener in 2008
With UK workplaces generating more carbon dioxide emissions than homes, the TUC has published a top ten list of green New Year’s resolutions to help businesses tackle climate change at work.A... | news | 4 Jan 2008 10:49AM

New year, new sustainable practices for businesses?
Sustainable business expert Envirowise is challenging UK businesses to take a two month test to see if they can make financial savings from environmental resolutions in the New Year. HSE stati... | news | 20 Dec 2007 3:43PM

Environmental Protection (Duty of Care) Regulations 1991
These Regulations impose requirements under section 34(5) of the 1990 Act on any person who is subject to the duty of care as respects the making and retention of documents and the furnishing of co... | Regulation | 13 Sep 1991 8:35AM

Environmental Protection Act 1990
An Act to make provision for the improved control of pollution arising from certain industrial and other processes; to re-enact the provisions of the Control of Pollution Act 1974 relating to waste... | Regulation | 1 Nov 1990 8:26AM

Control of Pollution (Amendments) Act 1989
An Act to provide for the registration of carriers of controlled waste and to make further provision with respect to the powers exercisable in relation to vehicles shown to have been used for illeg... | Regulation | 6 Jul 1989 8:07AM

Upcoming Environmental Challenges for Businesses: do you have the energy?
Energy and carbon emissions have become environmental hot topics, and shall be so for some time to come. The regulatory pressure is now significant and it is certainly not expected to decrease over... | White paper | 7 Apr 2008 4:36PM

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