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Air quality experts and delegates from around the world are meeting to discuss international action to improve global air quality
First published during the 2022 Truss Conservative government
The Environment Agency has released guidance setting out how port and harbour managers can protect marine life by responsibly managing resources and waste.
Potential civil penalty to rise from £250,000 to up to £250 million to help bring quicker enforcement action against water companies for causing pollution.
Neighbours blighted by smell of 'rotting bodies'.
More than 82 hectares of habitat has been created or improved in the past year as part of the Environment Agency’s programme of improvements across Yorkshire.
The Environment Agency has worked together with partners to invest almost £3m in environmental improvements in the North East over the past year.
UK Government establishes a new regulatory framework to boost industrial emissions standards and reduce air pollution.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Greener petrol rolled out to help Northern Ireland decarbonise transport.
Devon and Cornwall’s coastline is being enjoyed by millions of holidaymakers and local residents alike this summer.
Series of actions have been announced to improve air quality introduced under the Environment Act
Direction to Natural England from the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
A Warwickshire excavation company allowed sediment from a quarry to enter freshwaters in Buckinghamshire.
New round of Air Quality Grants for local authorities opens to benefit communities and reduce the impact of polluted air on people's health
Yorkshire Water has been fined £1,600,750 for polluting a Bradford watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was also ordered to pay a victim surcharge of £170 and £22,112.79 in costs.
A Newcastle based supplier and Haulier of quarried and recycled aggregates has agreed to pay £9,872 to Northumberland Wildlife Trust after it was found to have illegally deposited waste soils and clays at an old quarry on fa…
Yorkshire Water has agreed to donate a total of £400,000 to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust after polluting two watercourses in separate incidents, following investigations by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Leicestershire farmer for illegally discharging silage effluent into a brook causing the death of around 80 fish.
Frome farmer Michael Aylesbury, a director of Cross Keys Farms Ltd, has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 for polluting the River Frome, Frome, Somerset.
A joint opinion piece from Professor Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England, Jonson Cox, Ofwat chair and Emma Howard Boyd, Environment Agency chair.
The maker of popular brands like Cathedral City and others has been fined £1.5 million - the largest fine ever awarded for an Environment Agency conviction in the South West.
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