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This is a story about one of the most ambitious and effective remediation projects ever undertaken in the UK.
Speech by Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency, at the National Farmers Union Conference
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, World Water Tech Innovation Summit, 22 February 2022
Farmers in Dorset’s Poole Harbour catchment are aiming to become some of the most nitrogen efficient in the UK.
Greater Manchester granted short delay on scheme and asked to submit revised plans by July
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
£5,000 penalty for company and director.
Yorkshire Water has been fined £233,000 and ordered to pay £18,766.06 costs and £170 Victim Surcharge after it admitted to being responsible for a sewage leak that led to the deaths of hundreds of fish in Tong Beck, near Bra…
The operator of the former Path Head Quarry landfill near Ryton has agreed to pay £75,000 to local charitable causes after nuisance odours from its site blighted north east homes in 2016.
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting strict quality standards is the highest since 2015
This year’s Matlock Bath Boxing Day raft event is looking likely to go ahead, dependent on government guidelines.
Somerset farm business Alvis Brothers Ltd, of Lye Cross Farm, Redhill, has been ordered to pay £37,184 for polluting a tributary of the Congresbury Yeo.
Environment Agency successfully prosecutes Severn Trent Water for sewage discharges.
Rathlin Energy (UK) Limited applies to Environment Agency for permission to put exploratory oil and gas drill site at West Newton into commercial production.
Miller Homes Limited has been fined £200,000 for polluting a Huddersfield watercourse for more than 1km, after an investigation by the Environment Agency.
Cleaning chemicals spilled into a brook on the Suffolk/Cambridgeshire border after a Haverhill business failed to take reasonable care of its operations.
Legislation will improve air and water quality, tackle waste, increase recycling, halt the decline of species, and improve our natural environment.
Stoke St Gregory farmer Ben Hembrow has been ordered to pay £11,000 for polluting a watercourse with slurry in 3 separate incidents for the second time in 5 years.
Land Trust charity benefits by £30,000 to improve environment.
Change will further bolster the present raft of measures planned for Environment Bill which will tackle water pollution.
Businesses, charities, local authorities and general public among those encouraged to have their say on draft plans to improve England’s rivers and for managing flood risks
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