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New round of funding opens for Local Authorities to help clean up dirty air for communities
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The single-use carrier bag charge will be extended to all retailers and increased to 10p from April 2021 to further protect our oceans from plastic waste.
A Natural England scheme has boosted Essex’s pond habitats in just five months, helping to protect the UK’s threatened population of great crested newts.
The British High Commission provides £10,000 to the Mauritian Wildlife Foundation in response to the oil spill.
UK sends British ecology and marine experts at the request of the Mauritian government.
A district level licensing scheme making it easier for developers to protect threatened populations of great crested newts is being rolled out in Cambridgeshire.
New eight week consultation launched on giving bathing water status to an area of the River Wharfe in Ilkley
The Environment Agency and Coal Authority has started work on Nent Haggs Mine Water Treatment Scheme to address a harmful legacy of the industrial revolution.
The Environment Agency has outlined measures a polluter must take to restore a river after an incident that killed over 100,000 fish.
Coal Authority’s Lynemouth scheme can now treat more than 6 billion litres of mine water every year.
Environmental charities throughout the Midlands have received over £1.475m in donations as a result of Environment Agency enforcement action over the last 9 years.
Coronavirus is impacting our lives in many ways and changing our routines. It has also caused the price of oil to fall, so many people are filling their tanks.
Severn Trent Water Ltd has been fined £800,000 after allowing 3.8 million litres of raw sewage to enter a Shropshire stream from a local sewage treatment works.
Environment Agency fisheries specialists carried out a fish rescue in the Peak District yesterday, moving fish that have been stranded as the river dries up.
Changes will reduce energy, water and chemical usage at the former Frances colliery site in Dysart, near Kirkcaldy, on the East Fife coalfield.
The wildlife trust is receiving the money following an Enforcement Undertaking (EU) accepted by the Environment Agency.
After Environment Agency action, Fabriweld Tubular Steel Products has paid £15,300 to Notts Wildlife Trust for failing to meet packaging recycling obligations.
Businesses can apply for a share of £800,000 to look at innovative designs for products, services or business models that make plastic use more sustainable.
Statement by Tom Woodroffe, UK Development Counsellor at the UN, at the meeting of the Group of Friends to Combat Marine Plastic
Environment Agency fisheries specialists have been out in Shropshire rescuing fish stranded in dried up rivers, as 3 months of little rain takes its toll.
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