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Views sought on permit application for mineral processing facility.
High fine sends warning message to those with unregistered boats. Patrols on Thames have already begun for summer 2024.
Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.
Environment Agency officers blocked by operator
The Environment Agency is launching a consultation on proposed changes to water quality permitting charges.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
A court order has been extended, prohibiting anyone from entering or depositing waste on the site in Eastchurch, known locally as Eastchurch Gap.
Company and director to pay fines and costs of £13k for operating an illegal waste tyre storage site in Gateshead.
Brothers’ prison terms and director bans for multiple illegal waste sites
Court told director and his company had no environmental permit. Judge said case was a flagrant breach of law.
A son and mother responsible for illegal waste activity at a site in Huddersfield, which then set on fire in 2016 causing significant risk to the environment, have been sentenced.
The Environment Agency has issued a permit variation to Rathlin Energy (UK) Limited to drill additional oil and gas wells and carry out commercial production at West Newton A well site in East Riding of Yorkshire.
Erith site closed by court order over fire and flood concerns
Environment Agency is minded to issue the permit variation. Public consultation runs from 21 July to 1 September
Variation issued today to an environmental permit for Hinkley Point C nuclear power station, to allow for a change in water discharge activity at the site.
Land was covered by exemption certificate allowing some waste to be stored, but not the huge amounts that led to the prosecution
Trawsfynydd Site is hosting public engagement events, as well as an online exhibition, to seek feedback on possible options for decommissioning of the site’s ponds complex.
Judge - Thames Water "deliberately misled" the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died.
Environmental permit public consultation now open for comments until 2 August 2023.
West Yorkshire man gets director ban after unlawful business that saw sons jailed.
A new consultation has launched as the Environment Agency is 'minded to’ issue a permit variation for commercial oil and gas production at West Newton A in East Riding of Yorkshire.
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