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Official opening of £30 million Burton-upon-Trent flood defences
The Environment Agency has completed work ahead of schedule to repair a heavily eroded river bank in Haydon Bridge, Northumberland.
A £10 million package of flood defence repairs is almost complete, and a further £3 million of funding has been secured, to make communities along the lower River Aire in Yorkshire more resilient to climate change.
A pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change has been awarded to 27 projects
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Latest annual report by the Environment Agency shows that despite improvements, certain water companies are still failing in their duty to the environment
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted Edima Holdings Ltd, a Tamworth potato processing company, for causing a pollution which killed over 450 fish.
Southern Water sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges.
Stephen Fenwick has been handed a suspended prison sentence following an Environment Agency investigation.
A scrap metal exporter and a middle-man broker have been told to pay over £800,000 for taking advantage of a quarry that became an illegal tipping site.
166 spot checks were carried out while, in addition, five people were also reported for lighting a large barbecue.
Man fined for illegal dumping of waste in Raynes Park following tip-off from local resident.
Multi-agency operation to curtail the activities of a convicted criminal in Worcestershire.
Waters around weirs, sluices, locks and pumping stations can be dangerous.
Measures set out to encourage water efficient products and introduce more consistent approach to leakage; seven new areas designated in serious water stress
A naval base is seeking permission to change the way it disposes of rainwater contaminated by trace amounts of radioactivity at its Plymouth dockyard.
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd speaks about water scarcity at the WWT event 'Water Security in a Changing Environment'
A Bristol man has been prosecuted for fly-tipping waste in Avonmouth by the Environment Agency after being caught on CCTV.
The RFCC chair appointments have been announced
More than 400 fish were killed because a Dorset farm owner was unaware effluent from his silage clamp was discharging into a river.
Clampdown saw 10 traders suspected of selling without the correct permissions in place having their eBay accounts suspended.
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