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Remarks by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Water, 3 March 2022
Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, World Water Tech Innovation Summit, 22 February 2022
Northumbrian Water has paid £165,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after an unauthorised discharge led to a pollution incident near Newcastle.
Yorkshire Water pays Yorkshire Wildlife Trust £300,000 in an Enforcement Undertaking which has been accepted by the Environment Agency.
Water companies urged to do more to protect the environment and reduce storm overflows
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
99% of bathing waters in England have passed water quality standards following testing at over 400 designated sites carried out by the Environment Agency.
Northumbrian Water has been fined £240,000 for polluting a watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency.
New statistics show the number of designated bathing waters meeting strict quality standards is the highest since 2015
Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan's speech at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum conference on future environmental standards.
Environment Agency successfully prosecutes Severn Trent Water for sewage discharges.
Thames Water has now accrued £32.4m in fines since 2017 for 11 cases of water pollution.
Legislation will improve air and water quality, tackle waste, increase recycling, halt the decline of species, and improve our natural environment.
Change will further bolster the present raft of measures planned for Environment Bill which will tackle water pollution.
Sir James Bevan sets out hopes of keeping the 1.5°C target alive at COP26, but warns whatever is agreed the damage from climate change will be felt for decades
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021.
The Environment Agency has today welcomed a new chalk stream strategy to protect ‘England’s rainforests’
The Environment Agency has issued the first ever licences to abstract water on the Isles of Scilly.
Consultation on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's powers to protect groundwater
The Environment Agency has prosecuted Yorkshire Water Services Limited for illegally discharging sewage effluent into the Potter Carr Nature Reserve.
Environment Agency consults on changes to better protect the environment and long-term water security
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