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Human error blamed as enough water to fill 300,000 baths taken without Environment Agency licence
Incidents off Kent coastline and inland – company released sewage into water weeks after getting record £90 million fine for almost 7,000 illegal discharges
'I don’t do e-mails' among excuses for not clearing overflowing skips
Environment Agency obtains a restriction order for site on Haine Industrial Estate. Court order prohibits anyone from entering the site without permission.
The Environment Agency has opened a consultation into its ‘minded to’ decision to grant a permit variation to Angus Fire Limited in North Yorkshire.
Environment Agency closure comes after arrests. Bumped-up drone squad takes off to fight dumpers from the sky.
Suspended jail terms or fines for three men after countrywide crimes Illegal sites read like an A-Z: Cambridgeshire, Kent and Surrey among counties targeted
Environment Agency has granted an environmental permit variation to Rathlin Energy Ltd, following a public consultation on the Agency’s ‘minded to’ decision.
999 call sees 2 held, and lorry and devices seized. Latest arrests in Environment Agency purge on illegal waste
The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on a draft permit variation to Saputo Dairy UK for their creamery site near Davidstow, Cornwall.
The Environment Agency wants to hear your views as South West Water seeks permission to process more sewage waste in St Mabyn, Cornwall.
Additional first-time offenders bring recent hearing payments to £27,541. More to come as summer patrols serve 68 notices.
Statement from the Environment Agency and Oxfordshire County Council, on behalf of the strategic communication group for illegally-dumped waste at Kidlington
Egdon Resources UK Limited has applied to the Environment Agency for an environmental permit.
Martin McAnulty has to undo the damage he did to a habitat-rich Site of Special Scientific Interest in St Dennis, Cornwall.
Banned rubbish could have filled three Albert Halls. Confiscation order comes as Environment Agency closes 750 illegal waste sites in 12 months
Cornishman Martin Harvey ignored warnings about his illegal business and his plans to unlawfully develop his land and was prosecuted by the Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a father and son for running an illegal scrap metal site in Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire.
Companies dumped thousands of tonnes of waste in countryside as water board 'turned blind eye'
Cats and Dust Ltd, its director Cavin Mears, and former director Stephen Bryce prosecuted for operating waste sites without the required environmental permits.
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