We use some essential cookies to make this website work.
We’d like to set additional cookies to understand how you use GOV.UK, remember your settings and improve government services.
We also use cookies set by other sites to help us deliver content from their services.
You have accepted additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
You have rejected additional cookies. You can change your cookie settings at any time.
Departments, agencies and public bodies
News stories, speeches, letters and notices
Detailed guidance, regulations and rules
Reports, analysis and official statistics
Consultations and strategy
Data, Freedom of Information releases and corporate reports
Letter from the Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, Philip Duffy regarding inspections of water company assets.
40 projects across England set to benefit from £25 million funding for using nature to increase the nation’s flood resilience
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
Nottingham Crown Court told how liquid escaped from ruptured tank on lorry into nearby ponds killing fish.
Helen Wakeham, the Environment Agency's Director of Water, delivers a speech at the Summit on learning from the past to deliver for the future.
Four anglers from Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Telford, and Shrewsbury received total penalties of £1,507 for fishing without a licence.
The Environment Agency prosecuted Severn Trent Water for huge discharge of raw sewage at treatment works in Stoke.
Alan Lovell, Chair of the Environment Agency delivers speech at 2024 NFU Conference.
Devon’s Pebblebed Heaths National Nature Reserve to extended by nearly 90 hectares, the equivalent of 128 football pitches, to encompass a unique wetland
A Northumberland man who made his neighbours’ lives a misery during lockdown by storing and burning waste on an illegal waste site has been sentenced.
Some 38 people have been caught fishing illegally and will pay more than £12,000 in fines and costs.
Pensioner's Poltimore piles prison punishment.
The stream was polluted after a farm inspection by the Environment Agency recommended improvements should be made to prevent possible pollution.
The government has announced the recipients of awards to improve lowland peat soils, including over £1.3m to projects across the North.
Environment Agency officers blocked by operator
The Environment Agency launches Economic Crime Unit to address serious financial offences in the waste sector
A Bridgwater waste business director's company took in excess waste, then failed to have it removed after being told to do so by the Environment Agency.
The coast is clear: digital tool launched to bring shoreline management approaches to life
The Environment Agency is launching a consultation on proposed changes to water quality permitting charges.
Recent storms caused erosion on the beach in Lancing. Up to 12,000 cubic metres of shingle will be brought in to maintain defence to homes and businesses.
A North Yorkshire man has received a suspended prison sentence for the illegal deposit of waste on the River Swale flood plain.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
To help us improve GOV.UK, we’d like to know more about your visit today. Please fill in this survey (opens in a new tab and requires JavaScript).