A company which handles hazardous waste in Leeds has received a string of official safety warnings – with concerns about the potential for “toxic fumes” being generated in the event of a fire, The Yorkshire Post can reveal. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/exclusi...

Yorkshire firm Tissue Regenix has announced that it is set to undertake an investigation into the circumstances which led to it being on the brink of collapse late last year, adding that it had uncovered "potentially serious corporate governance concerns". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/tis...

I was (and absolutely still am) stunned to win an award at last night's Media Freedom Awards. Massive thanks go to everyone at The Yorkshire Post for the amazing teaching and guidance I've received over the last three years.

Yorkshire firm Tissue Regenix has warned that it will go out of business unless it can raise extra money by the end of November, after it last month discovered "financial inaccuracies" in its latest results. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/tis...

Chancellor Rachel Reeves appears set to press ahead with changes to cash ISA limits in next month's Budget, as she insisted that new rules are needed to get UK savers better returns on their investments. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ree...

Climate minister Katie White has said there is still "incredible support” from the public on action against climate change, despite what she described as a “fracturing at the political level”. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/public-...

Leeds City Council will today meet with tenants’ union ACORN as the group calls for a national ban on the use of bailiffs for council tax debt collection. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/leeds-c...

A group of residents near one of Drax’s US wood pellet facilities have filed a lawsuit against Drax Biomass and its subsidiaries, alleging that the facility “unlawfully” released “massive amounts of toxic pollutants into their community”. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/the...

A now closed private school in Yorkshire paid for a series of staff parties in the months leading up to its collapse, a former teacher has told The Yorkshire Post, despite existing financial issues and doubts around the school’s ability to continue operating. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ful...

Campaigners have warned that Drax could be about to face a “time of reckoning” in the US, as a major decision looms for one of the power station operator’s wood pellet production facilities. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dra...

The Environment Agency has served an enforcement notice to a company behind plans to build a controversial recycling plant on the Yorkshire border, claiming the firm has failed to tackle an ongoing fire risk on the proposed site. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/shi...

Power station operator Drax has announced that it has now appointed an external auditor, following an Ofgem investigation last year which led to the firm paying out £25m for “misreporting data”. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dra...

Two private schools in Yorkshire which closed down this year had suffered years of financial problems prior to the removal of VAT exemptions, and owed a combined total of just under £6m when they collapsed, analysis of financial documents has revealed. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/must-read/fu...

Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, Ed Miliband, has said that the transition to clean energy offers the “best chance in decades” to create new, well-paid jobs in South Yorkshire. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/clean-e...

Researchers from Yorkshire have warned of the potential health impacts from wildfires after identifying pollutants from the Langdale Moor fire almost 100km away in Leeds. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/wildfir...

A little career first for me this week with my first opinion piece in @yorkshirepost.co.uk I’ve taken a look at the recent drop-off in green investment from big businesses and the US Government and asked: how does this story end? www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/to-...

The US backing away from investment in green energy could present a major opportunity for the UK, according to the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador. www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...

Yet another blow for green energy in the first half of 2025. SSE has said it is “unlikely” to reach its 2030 generation target for renewables as the company announced it was cutting its five-year investment expectations by £3bn. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/sse...

As climate change fuels more wildfires in the UK, firefighters are facing extreme, dangerous conditions. I spoke with a wildfire officer in Yorkshire and local experts on what’s driving the rise in moorland fires. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/you...

Leeds has seen a net gain of just 22 affordable homes over the last ten years, as over 5,000 homes in the city were purchased through the Right to Buy Scheme. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/lee...

Exclusive: A director at North Yorkshire Council’s housing development company previously withdrew over £80,000 from a business prior to its collapse for he and his wife’s “personal benefit”, according to official documents. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/bri...

Anglo American has confirmed that recently announced plans for job cuts will not affect workers at its Yorkshire-based Woodsmith mining project. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ang...

New: A pioneering carbon capture firm part-owned by the Government, Drax and bp made almost all of its staff redundant yesterday. Move comes in same week that Drax and bp both announced plans to cut back on investing in renewable projects: app.yorkshirepost.co.uk/story/501271...

North Yorkshire power station operator Drax has said that it expects to commit less development investment into carbon capture until it has greater certainty on government regulation. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/dra...

Interesting development on Yorkshire’s Woodsmith mining project. The CEO of Anglo American, the firm behind the scheme, has said that the company expects the project to “ramp up” again no earlier than 2027. @yorkshirepost.co.uk www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/ang...

A Yorkshire Post investigation has uncovered a string of permit breaches relating to the handling of radioactive waste and materials at four Yorkshire hospitals, one of them involving a "missing bag of radioactive waste". @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/health/strin...

Yesterday I spoke to Yorkshire Water CEO Nicola Shaw about her decision not to return a performance bonus worth over £300,000, as well as the newly announced bill increases. Full write up below. @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/yor...

Yorkshire Water has been given the go-ahead to increase household bills by 41 per cent over the next five years. @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/yor...

Could a UN-linked research project help Anglo American's Woodsmith mine in North Yorkshire get back on track after delays and mass redundancies? The signs look promising. Story from @michaelcrossland.bsky.social: www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/woo...

Today's environment page lead: Yorkshire researchers warn on the looming loss of the vital carbon sink and wildlife havens that are the UK's saltmarshes. Thanks to @proftashabarlow.bsky.social and @edtgarrett.bsky.social @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/environ...

📰 Have announced this elsewhere but thought it can't hurt to put on here as well. I've now started looking after @theyorkshirepost.bsky.social weekly environment page, and am very keen to chat with people about any issues they want to shout about. A couple of pieces I've done so far linked below.

Big news from Eon/ OFGEM this morn. Eon Next has agreed to pay out £14.5m in compensation after an investigation from OFGEM found that almost 250,000 of the company’s customers were affected by an error on its billing system www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/eon...