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High rate of regulatory performance in England is helping fight climate change impacts, but more must be done to secure a healthy environment, says EA report
The Environment Agency has purchased a thermal imaging camera for use in fisheries enforcement patrols across Devon and Cornwall.
Sir James Bevan sets out hopes of keeping the 1.5°C target alive at COP26, but warns whatever is agreed the damage from climate change will be felt for decades
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021.
The Environment Agency has today welcomed a new chalk stream strategy to protect ‘England’s rainforests’
The Environment Agency has today welcomed a new strategy launched to protect England’s chalk streams.
A new chalk stream strategy, published today by Catchment Based Approach’s (CaBA) Chalk Stream Restoration Group (CSRG), sets the future direction needed to protect and enhance England’s chalk streams.
The £2.5 million project to remove the Dovecliff weir at Egginton, South Derbyshire is now complete following a 24-month programme of works.
The Environment Agency has purchased a thermal imaging camera for fisheries enforcement activity in East Anglia.
Sluice gates which manage water levels in the River Wansbeck will be open for three months as part of efforts to reduce silt build up.
The Environment Agency has accepted an Enforcement Undertaking (EU) from Doncaster-based Caswick Ltd for breaking packaging regulations.
The Environment Agency has granted a permit to place fish barriers across the entrances to Hoveton Great Broad as part of a restoration project.
Three men have been banned from acting as company directors for five years following an Environment Agency investigation into waste offences.
With less than three weeks to COP26, Environment Agency warns that adaptation – becoming resilient to the effects of climate change – is just as vital as mitigation
Secretary of State agrees Environment Agency plans to increase reservoir capacity.
Northumbrian Water has been fined more than half a million pounds for polluting a watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
£12.1M flood scheme covering residential and business communities in the Caton Road and Aldrens Lane areas of Lancaster has been officially launched
The Environment Agency has issued the first ever licences to abstract water on the Isles of Scilly.
Mytholmroyd’s new flood alleviation scheme, providing greater protection to 400 homes and businesses, as well as local infrastructure, schools and other public amenities has been officially opened.
The Environment Agency and BAM Nuttall have introduced electric vehicles to carry out early flood defence work in Hebden Bridge and the wider Calder Valley, as part of the project’s ambition to cut carbon emissions.
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