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Environment Secretary Steve Reed has announced a series of initial steps towards ending the crisis in the water sector.
Environment Agency prosecutes after routine sampling results. Court told how water company broke permitted levels 3 times in 10 months.
Sussex companies fined
Work to limit heavy metals polluting rivers in Upper Teesdale is due to start next week
Government identifies wastewater treatment works to be upgraded to stringent nutrient removal limits
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Events taking place during National Nature Reserves Week to showcase the benefits that National Nature Reserves bring to nature and people.
The bathing water season has started today, with monitoring by the Environment Agency now underway.
Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure collapsed.
Purchase has been made possible thanks to Natural England’s Nutrient Mitigation Scheme supported by £30 million of government funding
A community event will take place next week to explain proposals for a mine water treatment scheme at Threlkeld, near Keswick.
The UK Government will introduce new world-leading legislation to ban wet wipes containing plastic.
The company faces a series of alleged offences across Cornwall and in Plymouth for a six year period between 2015 and 2021.
Environmental bodies in England and Wales seek views on the future of the Upper Severn Valley,
Farmer Daniel Macey has been fined and ordered to pay costs totalling nearly £5,000 after silage effluent polluted the Fivehead river close to his farm.
The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations.
Views sought on permit application for mineral processing facility.
Northumbrian Water will pay £50,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after a burst pipe polluted Monkton Burn in Jarrow, South Tyneside.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s (MCA) counter-pollution response is being practiced this week in an exercise off Portland in Dorset.
Last week 25 school children from Gizo and Emmanuel schools, Western province, completed 3 days of plastic art creation at the Gizo School Hall.
Penalties topping £1.7m were issued to companies across Yorkshire in 2023 for environmental offences.
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