News and communications

Events taking place during National Nature Reserves Week to showcase the benefits that National Nature Reserves bring to nature and people.

• Updated: 20 May 2024

Boat-owner’s challenges 'relentless' – Environment Agency.

• Updated: 22 April 2024

Ministerial direction relating to determination of environmental permits for new waste incineration facilities in England.

• Updated: 10 April 2024

Views sought on permit application for mineral processing facility.

• Updated: 22 March 2024

High fine sends warning message to those with unregistered boats. Patrols on Thames have already begun for summer 2024.

• Updated: 22 March 2024

Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

Environment Agency officers blocked by operator

• Updated: 6 February 2024

The Environment Agency is launching a consultation on proposed changes to water quality permitting charges.

• Updated: 29 January 2024

A court order has been extended, prohibiting anyone from entering or depositing waste on the site in Eastchurch, known locally as Eastchurch Gap.

• Updated: 27 December 2023

Brothers’ prison terms and director bans for multiple illegal waste sites

• Updated: 14 November 2023

Court told director and his company had no environmental permit. Judge said case was a flagrant breach of law.

• Updated: 29 September 2023

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.

• Updated: 8 September 2023

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.

• Updated: 29 August 2023

Erith site closed by court order over fire and flood concerns

• Updated: 14 August 2023

Environment Agency is minded to issue the permit variation. Public consultation runs from 21 July to 1 September

• Updated: 2 August 2023

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.

• Updated: 31 July 2023

Land was covered by exemption certificate allowing some waste to be stored, but not the huge amounts that led to the prosecution

• Updated: 20 July 2023

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.

• Updated: 10 July 2023

Judge - Thames Water "deliberately misled" the Environment Agency in and around pollution of rivers in Sussex and Surrey in which several thousand fish died.

• Updated: 4 July 2023

Environmental permit public consultation now open for comments until 2 August 2023.

• Updated: 23 June 2023