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Tuesday, 21 July 2026
The Environment Agency has moved Sussex into a state of prolonged dry weather, joining Hampshire and the Isle of Wight. ...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Change of status because of the environmental impact created by a lack of rainfall and high temperatures. ...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
The Environment Agency is taking action to protect water supplies and wildlife in the Midlands as dry weather continues to place pressure on river lev...
Tuesday, 21 July 2026
Parts of southern, central, and eastern England move closer to drought status ...
Monday, 20 July 2026
The Environment Agency has secured £517,000 from United Utilities for sewage discharge breaches into the River Tame, funding environmental improvement...
Friday, 17 July 2026
Beaches forced to close, local trade hit, equipment failure and lack of oversight by company....
Friday, 17 July 2026
The Environment Agency has closed down a waste site in County Durham after reports of illegal dumping on protected land....
Thursday, 16 July 2026
The Environment Agency has served a suspension notice on the operators of Seaton Meadows landfill site in Seaton Carew....
Thursday, 16 July 2026
The Environment Agency is moving the area into a state of prolonged dry weather after England’s warmest spring on record and a series of summer heatwa...
Thursday, 16 July 2026
The Environment Agency has served revocation notices to the operators of two waste sites that have repeatedly breached permit conditions....
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The Environment Agency has told South West Water it should pursue appropriate sewage treatment for the Isles of Scilly. ...
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
Southern Water has pleaded guilty after the Environment Agency found a dark plume of pollution from one of its sites in a Hampshire chalk stream. ...
Tuesday, 14 July 2026
The Environment Agency has led a major multi-agency operation to tackle waste crime in Cumbria....
Monday, 13 July 2026
It's 5 years since the 2021 flash floods that affected 24 boroughs and over 2,000 properties, including homes, schools, hospitals, and Underground sta...
Friday, 10 July 2026
Housing company Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd has been sentenced for polluting a North East stream following an Environment Agency investigation....
Friday, 10 July 2026
Residents will have the opportunity to ask questions following the release of the UKHSA public health risk assessment this week...
Friday, 10 July 2026
Environment Agency and West Cumbria Rivers Trust work together to translocate salmon fry upstream of How Beck after reducing barriers to fish migratio...
Friday, 10 July 2026
The Environment Agency, in partnership with Isle of Wight Council, are launching ground investigations this summer...
Friday, 10 July 2026
The Environment Agency has changed the status of parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to prolonged dry weather ...
Friday, 10 July 2026
The Environment Agency has seized an HGV as part of its investigation into an illegal waste site in Bradford....
Friday, 03 July 2026
The Environment Agency has launched an investigation into the illegal dumping of waste on land in Bradford, West Yorkshire....
Friday, 03 July 2026
The landowner and three waste carriers have been convicted for waste dumping, with the latest defendant told to pay over £11,000....
Friday, 03 July 2026
Northumbrian Water pays £550,000 for environmental improvements following two separate pollution incidents....
Friday, 03 July 2026
The Environment Agency has secured £50,000 from Yorkshire Water Services for not releasing enough water into the environment from two reservoirs....
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
'Blackwater Joule' to become first Environment Agency zero emission workboat at Henley Royal Regatta. Second boat to set sail in East Anglia later in ...
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
Ground investigation works are underway along a 15km of coastline between Eastbourne and Bexhill as part of the multi-million-pound flood scheme....
Tuesday, 30 June 2026
First Environment Agency Agriculture Report published, providing a national overview of the sector’s environmental performance and regulatory outcomes...
Monday, 29 June 2026
An illegal waste site in West Yorkshire has been cleared of multiple tonnes of rubbish following successful court action brought by the Environment Ag...
Thursday, 25 June 2026
Environment Agency has secured an Enforcement Undertaking from Anglian Water for two permit breaches and an illegal discharge from sites in Lincolnshi...
Thursday, 25 June 2026
The Environment Agency warns River Roding Trust following an investigation into unpermitted work at Alders Brook in Ilford....
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Environment Agency Sussex joins Hampshire and Isle of Wight in prolonged dry weather