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A new unit will bring together law enforcement agencies and UK environmental regulators to target waste criminals.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency Coastal Futures 2020, Royal Geographical Society, London
The Environment Agency says that after re-assessing a flood scheme in York a section of road will need to be closed, but for six months less than planned.
Today (10 January 2020) marks the start of work on an innovative £40 million project to upgrade vital flood defences in Great Yarmouth.
Boss gets director ban after firm stored 4 times the legal amount of waste wood.
The manager of a waste transfer station has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence for running an illegal waste site at Torpoint, Cornwall.
People are being invited to have their say on the Environment Agency's proposal to revise a permit previously granted for a waste management facility.
The Environment Agency's specialist crime unit uncovered fictitious claims for the recycling of approximately 10,600 tonnes of electronic waste
Nottingham based firm makes £75,000 environmental donations after being caught not paying recycling costs for 15 years
A year-long project to reinvigorate a Suffolk river and increase the fish population has been completed.
Officers from the Environment Agency have found an unusual way to highlight the plastic waste problem on beaches.
Communities in England are urged to check their flood risk and sign up to flood warnings as ground water and river levels remain high.
The EA is urging communities in England to remain vigilant as minor river and surface water flooding impacts are possible across parts of England
Environment Agency officers delivered a Christmas stocking with a difference as they released more than 13,000 fish into the River Great Ouse.
Don’t drive through floodwater – stay away from swollen rivers.
Surface water flooding and rise in river levels possible, along with disruption to travel.
Anaerobic digestion (AD) company applies for permit to process food waste and green waste at its facility in West Malling, Kent
The flood defence scheme came one step closer today with a major milestone being met in the form of a Transport Works Act Order (TWAO) submission.
With further wet weather expected, Environment Agency and the AA urge drivers to stay away from flood water this winter.
Severn Trent Water Ltd has paid £226,000 to the Trent Rivers Trust following a sewage pollution which caused the death of over 2,000 fish.
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