Ulster Unionist MLA Roy Beggs has welcomed the news that the number of single-use plastic bags has been significantly reduced this year according to the department of the environment.

Ulster Unionist MLA for Newry and Armagh, Danny Kennedy, has welcomed the announcement by Environment Minister Edwin Poots of a Public Enquiry into the NIE cross border Inter Connector project.

The North Antrim Ulster Unionist Association has urged people in the constituency to maintain their organised protest against the lignite mining proposals.

Ulster Unionist Councillor Michael Copeland has welcomed the announcement from the Department of the Environment that they plan to hold a review into planning policy for flood risk.

Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott has given a cautious welcome to the Flooding Taskforce Report describing it as ';having positives';, but much work still needs to be done.

Ulster Unionist MLA Danny Kinahan has urged young people to ';bonfire responsible'; after he discovered a delivery of tyres at a private bonfire in Templepatrick.

Ulster Unionist members of the Assembly Environment Committee, Roy Beggs Jnr and Danny Kinahan, have said that fiscal constraints must not be allowed to affect the new sustainable development strategy and implementation plan.

Ulster Unionist MLA, Tom Elliott, has held a meeting with Minister for the Environment, Edwin Poots, to outline his concerns about the future of the Planning Service.

Ulster Unionist Environment spokesperson Roy Beggs Jnr MLA has welcomed the new Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Bill, describing it as ';long overdue';.

Roy Beggs MLA has this week successfully moved an amendment to the Wildlife and Natural Environment Bill which will ban the practice of Hare Coursing in Northern Ireland.