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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).
New plans will help tackle fly-tipping and illegal waste exports through stricter background checks and mandatory digital waste tracking
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Barges 'posed danger' blocking river.
Northumbrian Water has been fined £240,000 for polluting a watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting strict quality standards is the highest since 2015
Lower Otter Restoration Project (LORP) showcases schemes to adapt to climate change.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency to the Coastal Futures conference
Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan's speech at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum conference on future environmental standards.
A £4.8million Middlesbrough flood scheme that better protects around 500 homes and businesses is complete.
In March, the Environment Agency is starting work on a £6.5 million flood risk management scheme to reduce the risk of flooding for 350 homes and businesses in Stoke-on-Trent.
Emergency flood works in Cockermouth are now complete
The Environment Agency has published its Annual Fisheries Report revealing that over 1 million licence sales in 2020/21 funded improvements to the environment.
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