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Environmental training at Yorkshire Water

Successful ISO14001 certification requires organisations to raise environmental awareness among the workforce. Yorkshire Water has developed its own training programme to ensure it achieves this aspect of the international environmental management standard. Richenda Wilson reports

Insuring against environmental risk

With only 12 months to go before the Environmental Liability Directive comes into effect, Becky Allen and Jennifer Zerk look at how UK businesses and the insurance market are coping with the uncertainties that still surround the new legislation

Award seeks to raise environmental awareness

A new qualification aims to help manufacturing companies comply with environmental legislation by raising employee awareness of the law and promoting good practice. We take a look

Nanotechnology and environmental risk

Nanotechnology offers considerable benefits. But is the drive to exploit its potential leading to safety and environmental concerns being sidelined? Paul Reeve investigates

Bed, breakfast and ISO 14001

Novotel London West is the only hotel in the UK with ISO 14001 accreditation. It achieved this in April 2004 after implementing an extensive environmental management system. Richenda Wilson reports

Noise, odours and other nuisances

A guide to the law in the UK

PPC

Ninety-two per cent of large or complex industrial sites in Scotland have passed their annual assessment, according to figures released by SEPA, meeting the regulator’s target for satisfactory Operator Performance Assessment (OPA).

Still too many poor performers

The courts in England and Wales fined 284 businesses a total of £3 million for environmental offences in 2007. It is the highest number of prosecutions in one year, according to the 10th Spotlight on Business report from the Environment Agency, which looks back over the past decade.

Government rejects calls for mandatory CO2 reporting

That was the year that was

As this year draws to a close, Ross Fairley reflects on the current trends in the environmental law and flags up a number of important pieces of legislation that have made substantial progress in 2006 and could start to bite in 2007.