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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 heatwaves.
The Environment Agency has served revocation notices to the operators of two waste sites that have repeatedly breached permit conditions.
The Environment Agency has told South West Water it should pursue appropriate sewage treatment for the Isles of Scilly.
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.
The Environment Agency has led a major multi-agency operation to tackle waste crime in Cumbria.
It's 5 years since the 2021 flash floods that affected 24 boroughs and over 2,000 properties, including homes, schools, hospitals, and Underground stations.
Housing company Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd has been sentenced for polluting a North East stream following an Environment Agency investigation.
Residents will have the opportunity to ask questions following the release of the UKHSA public health risk assessment this week
Environment Agency and West Cumbria Rivers Trust work together to translocate salmon fry upstream of How Beck after reducing barriers to fish migration.
The Environment Agency, in partnership with Isle of Wight Council, are launching ground investigations this summer
The Environment Agency has changed the status of parts of Hampshire and the Isle of Wight to prolonged dry weather
The Environment Agency has seized an HGV as part of its investigation into an illegal waste site in Bradford.
Half a million-pound financial penalties introduced in latest crackdown on polluting water companies
First published during the 2024 to 2026 Starmer Labour government
The Environment Agency has launched an investigation into the illegal dumping of waste on land in Bradford, West Yorkshire.
The landowner and three waste carriers have been convicted for waste dumping, with the latest defendant told to pay over £11,000.
Northumbrian Water pays £550,000 for environmental improvements following two separate pollution incidents.
The Environment Agency has secured £50,000 from Yorkshire Water Services for not releasing enough water into the environment from two reservoirs.
'Blackwater Joule' to become first Environment Agency zero emission workboat at Henley Royal Regatta. Second boat to set sail in East Anglia later in the year.
Ground investigation works are underway along a 15km of coastline between Eastbourne and Bexhill as part of the multi-million-pound flood scheme.
First Environment Agency Agriculture Report published, providing a national overview of the sector’s environmental performance and regulatory outcomes
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