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Environment Agency swallows tablets
News The Environment Agency is rolling out tablet PCs to its inspectors in an attempt to improve productivity and limit the impact on the environment. We are looking to provide more support for the people actually doing the inspections," said Gerry...
[June 30, 2006, 15:55]
Environment agency expands online resources
News The Environment Agency has launched a new online map service, aimed at giving people up to date information about flood risks. We're in the business or flood defence and we need to make people aware if they're at risk," an environment agency...
[October 7, 2004, 16:40]
Environment Agency seeks green IT partner
News The Environment Agency has posted a tender for what it hopes will be the most environmentally sustainable government IT contract to date. Announcing the contract on 14 December, 2007, the Environment Agency's director of operations Paul Leinster...
[December 17, 2007, 15:41]
Environment Agency Creates Business-Focused Culture Through Integrated Back Office
White Papers The Environment Agency is the leading public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. The Environment Agency commissioned Oracle Consulting to build "One Business One System " (1B1S), an enterprise-wide IT...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
Environment Agency Becomes More Efficient by Integrating Financial and HR Systems
White Papers The Environment Agency's role is to protect the environment in England and Wales and ensure that air, land, and water resources are used in a sustainable manner for the benefit of future generations. The Environment Agency relied on disconnected...
[July 1, 2008, 1:01]
The Environment Agency Guards Against IT Disruption
White Papers As the leading public body for protecting the environment in England and Wales, the Environment Agency has a wide spectrum of responsibilities. Some aspects of the agency's work, such as issuing flood warnings and responding to pollution incidents...
[December 13, 2006, 0:00]
Flood of England and Wales successfully simulated
News The technology in a national flood simulation exercise "passed expectations", says the Environment Agency A major Environment Agency exercise testing the country's resilience to flooding was successfully coordinated by a website specifically...
[June 21, 2004, 14:00]
Environmental searches bloom online
News The Environment Agency has completed the initial rollout of a £4m project to make its property searches available online. David Price, project manager at the EA, told silicon.com the project will also prepare the agency for a potential increase in...
[September 2, 2003, 16:05]
Creative uses for dead PCs
News New legislation means that any business looking to dispose of more than the smallest amount of dead hardware will need to register with the Environment Agency, or face the government's wrath. New legislation means that any business looking to...
[September 2, 2005, 14:25]
It's not just me who's confused by recycling laws...
Blog God knows they have had long enough to implement the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, but it seems the DTI and the Environment Agency still haven't got their heads around how it's going to work in practice.
[January 24, 2007, 17:10]
Illegal WEEE and Computer recycling/ export operations raided in London!
Blog A number of raids carried out by the Environment Agency over the past months have highlighted the illegal trade in hazardous electronic and computer waste, with the majority of non-working, totally obsolete equipment being destined for Africa.
[July 14, 2009, 16:05]
Cutting down on e-waste and making WEEE work
Blog The organisation has launched a petition calling on the government to give the Environment Agency enough funds to be able to police the WEEE supply chain effectively - and fight dumping of e-waste in developing countries.
[September 24, 2008, 13:45]
IT managers get clarification on recycling duties
News Companies buying IT equipment should expect to negotiate with suppliers over whether to take on the recycling costs of new hardware, or simply pay a premium for the tech vendor to handle the process, according to the Environment Agency and DTI.
[January 24, 2007, 16:04]
High court cracks down on WEEE waste dodge
News However, the Environment Agency, which is responsible for enforcing the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) regulations, did not act illegally by failing to take action on the matter, the high court said.
[August 5, 2009, 16:33]
Company convicted over abandoned monitors
News The serial numbers were traced back to Channel Hardware, whose business was to carry out computer repairs and deal with discarded computer equipment," said Rob Walsh, a spokesperson for the Environment Agency, which brought the case.
[December 5, 2005, 16:45]
Recycling legislation delayed six months - again
News Jeff Cooper, the Environment Agency's manager for waste producer responsibility, explained that although WEEE will not be enacted and enforced until June 2006, preparations for compliance will begin in the next few months.
[August 10, 2005, 17:55]
Microsoft admits .Net skills shortage
News As ZDNet UK reported last week, the UK's Highway's Agency embarked on a move to .Net, only to discover that finding .Net-skilled staff was a real challenge. If the Highway's Agency can't find them, then there need to be some more," Quirk said.
[November 9, 2005, 12:30]
Chips to talk without wires
News The technology is an integral part of a supercomputer Sun is creating for a supercomputer bake-off sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The government agency wants to see US manufacturers establish a new generation of...
[August 3, 2004, 8:50]
Is the WEEE directive in trouble?
Blog Comment Interestingly enough, I've been speaking to contacts at the Environment Agency in the UK and there's talk of a change in tactics on the enforcement front. The view of the Agency is that consultation work (advising companies licenced to recycle...
[September 12, 2008, 12:54]
The environmental impact of compliance
News The person charged with making sure the changes happened was Gerry Kaspers, programme manager at the Environment Agency. With a highly distributed structure, which includes eight regional offices and many more local ones, the pilot was restricted...
[June 30, 2006, 15:45]
