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Anglian Water has been fined £1.6m after repeated sewage pollution of the River Brain over six weeks in 2022.
Environment Secretary announces local communities to receive £79 million to restore nature and adapt to climate change
The court found that the company’s conduct amounted to reckless failures as judge says that 'incidents of pollution will not be tolerated'.
Incidents killed fish and eels, and closed beaches for days
Environment Agency response outlining actions to implement the Nuclear Regulatory Taskforce Review.
The Environment Agency has secured a six-figure sum for environmental causes from a national house builder after silt was jetted into watercourses.
New opt-in alerts will warn people when air pollution is high, or expected to be high, in their local area
Essex company fined after operator ignored warnings to clear overflowing site
Marine Minister Stephen Morgan visits Port of Tyne to see first-hand the ongoing response from volunteers and multiple agencies to plastic pollution incident
Environment Agency investigations into illegal sewage discharges generate funds for wildlife restoration projects across the West Midlands region.
The Environment Agency has started a 7-week consultation on a new long sea outfall from Exmouth sewage treatment works.
Environment Agency investigations into waste and water offences across Lincolnshire have secured £168,000 for a Lincolnshire charity.
Fire-risk among Environment Agency’s many concerns
Beaches forced to close, local trade hit, equipment failure and lack of oversight by company.
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.
Housing company Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd has been sentenced for polluting a North East stream following an Environment Agency investigation.
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.
Environment Agency has secured an Enforcement Undertaking from Anglian Water for two permit breaches and an illegal discharge from sites in Lincolnshire
Two new analytical tools launched to identify where environmental, socio-economic and health pressures affect communities across England
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