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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
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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.
The Environment Agency has accepted an Enforcement Undertaking from a Worcestershire-based fresh mushroom supplier who broke packaging regulations.
Multi-agency action checks waste collectors are complying with the law.
Plants, fish, birds and other animals in the Ant Valley to benefit from up to three billion litres of water being returned to the environment
East Anglian Resources goes into liquidation ahead of court sentencing for dust and fire prevention failings.
The natural environment along Bradford Beck has had a welcome boost now a three year river restoration project is complete.
Conservation milestone reached as 30 hazel dormice are released into Lancashire as part of national reintroduction programme and local ‘Back on our Map’ species recovery efforts
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