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Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency, 7 June, Flood & Coast Conference 2022, Telford
Over 100 Hampshire school children have been invited to a ‘kids’ conference’ at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard to mark World Ocean Day on Wednesday 8 June.
Pollution from a water pumping station caused the death of over 5,000 fish in an Essex river.
Company fined £120,000 plus costs of £28,125.19.
The Environment Agency has completed the mammoth task of tagging more than 4,000 juvenile salmon smolts (juveniles) before they leave the River Tamar and head out to sea.
Projects include rewetting lowland peat to grow plant fibre material to use as padding for clothes.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Two-year fly-tip racket catches up with pensioner
An Accrington man who was caught illegally fishing by the Environment Agency on Lake Windermere has been heavily fined by the courts.
Cases were heard at Hastings Magistrates' Court where all the men pleaded guilty.
Adam Wiffen, of Bailey Bridge Road, Braintree, Essex was caught fishing without a licence on 22 January 2022 at Laundry Lake, Little Easton in Essex.
The Environment Agency is looking for two new volunteers to join the English Severn and Wye Regional Flood and Coastal Committee (ESW RFCC).
Fines have been issued for breaches of climate change schemes which are in place to help ensure the UK reaches its target of net zero emissions by 2050.
A Norfolk village road will be closed for a number of weeks this summer as the base for a new temporary flood barrier is installed.
Three anglers fishing without a licence in Merseyside caught more than they bargained for with fines running into hundreds of pounds.
An innovative Natural Flood Management project based at the Brownlee Triathlon Centre in Leeds has been completed. The first of its kind in the country, it forms part of a catchment wide approach to installing NFM measures t…
The Environment Agency has rescued more than 1,300 fish as a Northumberland river naturally changed course following heavy rainfall, leaving the fish stranded.
A joint prosecution by Natural England and the Environment Agency for damages to the River Lugg has progressed following guilty pleas by the defendant.
The Environment Agency’s Fisheries Improvement Programme has seen £25,853 of rod licence income invested in Devon and Cornwall projects over the last 12 months.
The Environment Agency Fisheries Improvement Programme has invested £3.5 million to fund over 100 projects to enhance England's fisheries.
The Environment Agency and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust have worked together on the 'Wild Wiske Revival: Clean and Green' project over the last three years.
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