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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.
The Environment Agency’s priority is to protect people and the environment, and to support those we regulate during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Environment Agency is to test new arrangements for managing its short-stay visitor moorings along the non-tidal River Thames.
The Environment Agency and Middlesbrough Council are working together on Marton West Beck Flood Alleviation Scheme in Middlesbrough.
Members of the public can have their say on an application to place fish-proof barriers at Hoveton Great Broad, Norfolk, as part of a restoration project.
Enabling work on a £56m flood alleviation scheme in Rochdale and Littleborough will get underway in the coming weeks.
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