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Yorkshire Water fined £1.6M for sewage pollution

Yorkshire Water fined £1.6M for sewage pollution

Monday, 18 July 2022

Yorkshire Water has been fined £1,600,750 for polluting a Bradford watercourse in a prosecution brought by the Environment Agency. It was also ordered...

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Extreme heat: Environment Agency calls on public to help protect fish

Extreme heat: Environment Agency calls on public to help protect fish

Monday, 18 July 2022

Environment Agency officers are on the ground protecting fisheries across England as temperatures soar....

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Exhibition of Beer's flood history to open in Devon

Exhibition of Beer's flood history to open in Devon

Monday, 18 July 2022

Lessons learned from historic flooding are to be shared with the current generation to urge them to act now and protect their own loved ones and prope...

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Proposed change to how Hinkley Point C stores radioactive waste

Proposed change to how Hinkley Point C stores radioactive waste

Monday, 18 July 2022

The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on the way radioactive waste will be stored at Hinkley Point C nuclear power station near Bridgwate...

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Riverside Resource Recovery Facility, Belvedere Permit Variation

Riverside Resource Recovery Facility, Belvedere Permit Variation

Friday, 15 July 2022

Public Consultation is now open...

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Boost for North East wildlife charity as Newcastle haulier makes amends for environmental offence?

Boost for North East wildlife charity as Newcastle haulier makes amends for environmental offence?

Friday, 15 July 2022

A Newcastle based supplier and Haulier of quarried and recycled aggregates has agreed to pay £9,872 to Northumberland Wildlife Trust after it was foun...

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Yorkshire Water civil sanctions see wildlife charity get funding boost

Yorkshire Water civil sanctions see wildlife charity get funding boost

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Yorkshire Water has agreed to donate a total of £400,000 to Yorkshire Wildlife Trust after polluting two watercourses in separate incidents, following...

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Sutton Harbour is getting £3 million of repair and maintenance

Sutton Harbour is getting £3 million of repair and maintenance

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Plymouth’s lock gates need repairs to continue protecting hundreds of homes and businesses from flooding, and providing access to the marina and fish ...

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Water and sewerage company performance on pollution hits new low

Water and sewerage company performance on pollution hits new low

Thursday, 14 July 2022

Latest annual Environmental Performance Assessment shows environmental performance of England’s nine water and sewerage companies has declined. ...

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Environment Agency and partners warn Berkshire river users to stay safe in heatwave

Environment Agency and partners warn Berkshire river users to stay safe in heatwave

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

People warned that hazards around bridges and locks, dangerous flows and unexpectedly cold water can catch bathers off guard....

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Return to the unfrozen moment

Return to the unfrozen moment

Wednesday, 13 July 2022

Emma Howard Boyd's final speech as Chair of the Environment Agency....

Environment Agency report sets out urgent need to work with nature

Environment Agency report sets out urgent need to work with nature

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

EA Chief Executive warns of a ‘silent spring’ for wildlife if warnings are ignored and urges action ahead of the UN Convention of Biological Diversity...

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Reversing the Nature Crisis: Silent spring or Adlestrop?

Reversing the Nature Crisis: Silent spring or Adlestrop?

Tuesday, 12 July 2022

Speech by Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive, Environment Agency ...

Romsey flood alleviation scheme is officially unveiled

Romsey flood alleviation scheme is officially unveiled

Monday, 11 July 2022

Scheme will better protect 127 properties by reducing the risk of flooding from the River Test and surface water....

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Official opening for Romsey Flood Alleviation Scheme

Official opening for Romsey Flood Alleviation Scheme

Friday, 08 July 2022

Scheme will better protect 127 properties by reducing the risk of flooding from the River Test and surface water....

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Views sought on Sizewell C nuclear power environmental permits

Views sought on Sizewell C nuclear power environmental permits

Friday, 08 July 2022

Public consultation underway on plans for new nuclear power station in Suffolk...

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Environment Agency to carry out work at Wychall Reservoir

Environment Agency to carry out work at Wychall Reservoir

Friday, 08 July 2022

£1.5million of essential maintenance works on the reservoir in Kings Norton, Birmingham to ensure the highest standards of safety at the site....

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School children take part in tree planting to help improve the environment

School children take part in tree planting to help improve the environment

Thursday, 07 July 2022

Local school children in Egremont have planted roughly 200 trees to help increase biodiversity in the area and reduce anti- social behaviour....

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Leicestershire farmer pays over £15,000 for illegally discharging silage effluent

Leicestershire farmer pays over £15,000 for illegally discharging silage effluent

Thursday, 07 July 2022

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Leicestershire farmer for illegally discharging silage effluent into a brook causing the death of...

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Man arrested and illegal fishing net seized at Newbiggin by the Sea

Man arrested and illegal fishing net seized at Newbiggin by the Sea

Tuesday, 05 July 2022

Fisheries Enforcement Officers from the Environment Agency arrested one man on suspicion of poaching sea trout at Newbiggin by the Sea....

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Finance, resilience, net zero and nature

Finance, resilience, net zero and nature

Monday, 04 July 2022

Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency and interim Chair of the Green Finance Institute | UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment Ann...

Construction continues on Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme, with work scheduled to start at two more locations over the coming weeks

Construction continues on Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme, with work scheduled to start at two more locations over the coming weeks

Monday, 04 July 2022

Work starts on two new locations on multi-million-pound flood scheme...

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Second community drop in event to be held in Matlock

Second community drop in event to be held in Matlock

Monday, 04 July 2022

Event will provide an opportunity for locals to find out about work to restore flood protection, the construction programme and its impact on the town...

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Environment Agency calls on sports industry to support Plastic Free July

Environment Agency calls on sports industry to support Plastic Free July

Thursday, 30 June 2022

The sports sector is being invited to mark Plastic Free July (1 to 31 July) with a ‘kick plastic out of sport’ social media campaign....

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Somerset farmer fined second time for polluting Frome watercourse

Somerset farmer fined second time for polluting Frome watercourse

Thursday, 30 June 2022

Frome farmer Michael Aylesbury, a director of Cross Keys Farms Ltd, has been ordered to pay more than £25,000 for polluting the River Frome, Frome, So...

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If this city could talk: Improving flood resilience in Newcastle

If this city could talk: Improving flood resilience in Newcastle

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

The Environment Agency and Newcastle City Council have launched a pilot to give residents and visitors to Newcastle the chance to boost their flood re...

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Help shape the future coastal defences at Yaverland and Shanklin

Help shape the future coastal defences at Yaverland and Shanklin

Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Residents and visitors on the Isle of Wight are being encouraged to share their views on the coastal frontages at Shanklin and Yaverland. ...

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Dairy Crest given record fine for Davidstow environmental offences

Dairy Crest given record fine for Davidstow environmental offences

Thursday, 23 June 2022

The maker of popular brands like Cathedral City and others has been fined £1.5 million - the largest fine ever awarded for an Environment Agency conv...

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Children design ‘healthy rivers’ posters for Colwick fish pass

Children design ‘healthy rivers’ posters for Colwick fish pass

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

Schoolchildren design posters for inclusion on banners to go on show at the construction site of the country’s largest fish pass....

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Dorset chalk stream benefits from Environment Agency funding

Dorset chalk stream benefits from Environment Agency funding

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

The Environment Agency has funded a successful project to improve water quality and fish habitat in the Devils Brook, an important chalk stream in Dor...

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