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The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted two men for fishing illegally for crayfish on the River Derwent in Derby in July 2019.
Four major coastal defence projects on the Isle of Wight are one step closer to completion after receiving £7 million of central government funding.
Yorkshire Water pays Yorkshire Wildlife Trust £300,000 in an Enforcement Undertaking which has been accepted by the Environment Agency.
Farmers in Dorset’s Poole Harbour catchment are aiming to become some of the most nitrogen efficient in the UK.
An Environment Agency project to create a large ‘aquagreen’ that will reduce flood risk to over 870 properties and key infrastructure in east Hull has been given the go ahead.
An online initiative calling on Hampshire’s coastal and river communities to collect and record litter found across the Solent is now live.
The traditional board game of snakes and ladders has been given a digital makeover by the Environment Agency for the 2022 Winter Olympics (4-20 February).
Solar farm to be built on closed landfill site in Wednesfield, West Midlands
How the Environment Agency works to protect properties from flooding.
The Office for Nuclear Regulation and the Environment Agency have confirmed the UKHPR1000 nuclear reactor is suitable for use in the UK.
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency Wolfson College, University of Oxford, 3 February 2022
2 boaters have been ordered to pay a combined total of more than £2,600 for not registering their vessels.
Work to install natural features to better protect residents in Acomb, Northumberland from flooding is underway.
£5,000 penalty for company and director.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £233,000 and ordered to pay £18,766.06 costs and £170 Victim Surcharge after it admitted to being responsible for a sewage leak that led to the deaths of hundreds of fish in Tong Beck, near Bra…
The operator of the former Path Head Quarry landfill near Ryton has agreed to pay £75,000 to local charitable causes after nuisance odours from its site blighted north east homes in 2016.
Thousands of fish have found new homes in Cornwall and around the Plymouth area thanks to the Environment Agency’s annual restocking programme.
99% of bathing waters in England have passed water quality standards following testing at over 400 designated sites carried out by the Environment Agency.
Gateshead business partners who operated an illegal Newcastle waste site – with one defendant fly-tipping waste across the city – have been sentenced.
Initial work on the site of the Salisbury River Park project is due to start at the end of this month (January 2022).
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