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A specially designed fish pass is being installed in a Norfolk chalk stream, to enable fish to swim freely through the upper River Tiffey.
More than 250 trees are being planted in a Northumberland town to replace those lost during construction of a vital flood alleviation scheme.
Public Consultation is now open
The Environment Agency’s contract with the Angling Trust has been extended until March 2023.
Construction firms urged to take responsibility for their waste to limit disruption to the environment.
600 homes and businesses protected from flooding.
Residents in 113,000 homes in Hull are now better protected from flooding as the Environment Agency’s £42 million Humber frontages scheme comes to fruition.
The Environment Agency and partners have completed more than 700 projects to better protect more than 300,000 homes since 2015
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The Environment Agency and the Suffolk Wildlife Trust have completed a 2-year project to improve the River Gipping and its tributaries.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency and Adviser to the Board of Trade, speaking at an event hosted by the British Embassy in Washington D.C.
Plans to create a large ‘aquagreen’ to reduce flood risk to homes and businesses near Bransholme in east Hull have been submitted for planning approval.
Public consultation now open on applications to vary existing permits at Horse Hill, including the drilling of 4 new boreholes.
Resources encouraging less waste are live on the National Federation of Young Farmers’ Club website.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment, speaking at an International Women's Day event organised by the COP26 presidency, in partnership with Chatham House
A Northamptonshire man, who was jailed in January, after a decade of waste offences was ordered this week to pay £12,500 in costs and £140 in victim surcharge.
Sand will be topped up on beaches between Saltfleet and Gibraltar Point, reducing the risk of flooding for Lincolnshire's coastal communities.
The Environment Agency is calling on residents in a Northumberland village to register as Flood Wardens.
Ambitions to reduce avoidable plastic waste in the Southampton area have taken a step forward at a virtual workshop run by the Environment Agency.
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, to the Whitehall and Industry Group on 16 March 2021
The Environment Agency is reminding anglers the ‘close season’ for coarse fish in rivers comes into effect from Monday 15 March and runs until 15 June.
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