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Soiled nappies, clothing and videotape among items labelled waste paper bound for China
More than two months’ worth of rain fell in three days last week, causing a breach of the flood bank on the River Steeping.
Beach users in Suffolk and Norfolk might be surprised to see Environment Agency staff stride into the sea in their waders, but they are testing water quality.
An Ipswich packaging company has offered to pay nearly £20,000 to two environmental charities after admitting it had contravened regulations
A man from New Balderton, Newark has been sentenced to pay £4,219.53 after he was found guilty in his absence of transporting controlled waste without a licence in Newark, Nottinghamshire.
...while his nephew risks jail if he offers to take YOUR waste away
To restore land to agricultural use, the landowner imported 23,500 tonnes of soil but was only allowed a maximum of 1,000 tonnes.
Environment Agency engineer, Ahmed Yusuf, has proved he is at the top of his game by winning a national award.
The fourth Flood and Coast Conference opened in Telford today.
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency Flood and Coast Conference, Telford International Centre, 18 June 2019
Learn how 1,800 properties will have their flood risk cut at the drop-in exhibition on 28 June 2019.
The Environment Agency and its partner organisations are today calling on anglers to choose to release salmon caught by rod and line and to handle fish with care.
Environment Agency and Herefordshire Council are using satellite technology to target sites where soil water run-off is causing big problems for the environment and the county’s roads.
The Environment Agency is today introducing an emergency byelaw to protect salmon in the River Severn and its estuary, after a review of recent data showed a significant reduction in salmon stock levels in the Severn.
Nottingham man guilty of fishing without licence and taking fish.
Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency Speech to Resourcing the Future Conference 2019, London
Parkeston pumping station near Harwich, located at the lower end of the Ramsey/Dock River, helps to protect homes and businesses from the risk of flooding.
Commenting on the Prime Minister's announcement to set a target of net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, Emma Howard Boyd Chair of the Environment Agency said:
They abandoned 2,000 tonnes of waste, leading to complaints of odour, dust and debris
Fishing licence income has funded £10,000 worth of equipment to help protect fisheries in East Anglia and save fish in distress due to the effects of hot and dry weather.
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