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Aeternum, the developer that owns the former Hickson Chemical Works in Castleford, West Yorkshire, are awaiting the findings of an expert industry group as it nears the end of a £1.2 million trial to look at techniques to clean up residual contamination left behind on parts of the site by nearly a century of chemical industry.
The realisation of the environmental, economic and road safety benefits of delivering goods out-of-hours has taken a significant step forward with the results of the Quiet Delivery Demonstration Scheme (QDDS) trials, announced today (28 June) at the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in London at a conference attended by Transport Minister Mike Penning.
Costs of Thames Water's sewage tunnel will be more than Wembley and Olympics combined, argue detractors
The plan to build a £3.6bn "super sewer" to collect the millions of tonnes of raw sewage that overflows into the river Thames after heavy rain must be rethought to save money, the leaders of 14 city councils will tell environment minister Richard Benyon on Monday
AN green project is giving people the chance to get involved in their environment.
The Wild Green Spaces in Hartlepool project, which aims to involve local people in work to develop and improve the town’s parks and Local Nature Reserves (LNRs), is operating a Wild Wednesdays scheme.
Details have been released of the first nine electric cars that will be eligible for grants of up to £5,000 in a government subsidy scheme. Under the £43m initiative that starts on 1 January, buyers will get a 25% discount up to the maximum £5,000.
Companies from across the UK this July will be building and sleeping in shelters made from scavenged material, hiking through the Peak District and completing other challenges all in the name of fighting world poverty.
The Environmental Industries Commission has welcomed Chris Huhne’s comments on the protection of environmental regulations from the red tape challenge. To remove environmental regulations would be bad for the green economy and bad for the environment. Chris Huhne is right to challenge the Governments threat to scrapping environmental protection.
As Recycle Week (20 – 26 June) gets underway, a new survey shows that more than three quarters (76 per cent) of people in Wales are ‘committed recyclers.’*
Ministers from the UK, Republic of Ireland, The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have this week signed up to a historic deal to cooperate on exploiting the major wind and marine resource in and around the islands.
