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A Devon businessman has been ordered by Exeter Crown Court to spend £85,344 of his own money removing waste he illegally deposited on a floodplain near Cullompton.
Natural England, the Environment Agency and the Forestry Commission have joined forces to investigate a series of unconsented works on the river Lugg.
The Environment Agency has published the responses of a public consultation regarding an application by Augean North Ltd.
Trailblazing new government-backed scheme to benefit both people and wildlife in the Solent.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
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.
A district level licensing scheme making it easier for developers to protect threatened populations of great crested newts is being rolled out in Cambridgeshire.
A Cambridgeshire illegal waste site the size of a football pitch has been swooped on by the Environment Agency as part of work to shut it down for good.
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.
The wildlife trust is receiving the money following an Enforcement Undertaking (EU) accepted by the Environment Agency.
Warwickshire Wildlife Trust is to benefit by £35,868.12 through an Enforcement Undertaking 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.
Residents and interested groups invited to submit any new information on the draft permit decision
The Environment Agency is reminding riverside residents in the East Midlands they may need a permit to carry out improvements to their homes.
The Environment Agency has granted a revised environmental permit for a waste management facility in Essex.
A report has been published revealing the results of a five-week public consultation on extending the sea trout netting season in Yorkshire and the North East.
Thames boat-owner fined for missing river permit.
Wayne Hillard claimed he was repairing vehicles, not stripping them, but made £1.3m at his Westonzoyland compound.
Bourne Leisure Ltd, owners of country house hotels, Haven and Butlins, was fined £90,000 for polluting the River Meden and has to pay £44,518.96 in costs.
Woman jailed for her part in illegal, family run waste storage and processing business.
Members of the public can have their say on an application to place fish barriers in a Norfolk Broad as part of a restoration project.
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