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Checks target waste crime in landfill day of action

Checks target waste crime in landfill day of action

Thursday, 28 March 2024

Officers from the Environment Agency and the Joint Unit for Waste Crime visited two landfill sites in the north of England in a day of action....

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Five years of beaver activity reduces impact of flooding

Five years of beaver activity reduces impact of flooding

Thursday, 28 March 2024

Second-largest rodent thriving in Essex...

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Environment Agency publishes guidance on production of green hydrogen

Environment Agency publishes guidance on production of green hydrogen

Thursday, 28 March 2024

New guidance published on production of hydrogen from water using electrolysis...

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Environment Agency raising flood risk awareness in Forest of Dean

Environment Agency raising flood risk awareness in Forest of Dean

Wednesday, 27 March 2024

Environment Agency officers will be talking to residents in Lydney and Cinderford about the steps they can take to prepare for flash flooding....

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Revitalising the Hamble Brook

Revitalising the Hamble Brook

Wednesday, 27 March 2024

A huge new wetland site has been created next to the Hamble Brook in Buckinghamshire....

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Environment Agency publishes storm overflow spill data for 2023

Environment Agency publishes storm overflow spill data for 2023

Wednesday, 27 March 2024

100% of storm overflows now fitted with monitoring devices required by the government. ...

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Construction of the country’s largest fish pass completed

Construction of the country’s largest fish pass completed

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

Nottingham’s Colwick Country Park is now home to the largest fish pass in the country thanks to the completion of the Environment Agency’s £12m projec...

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Whistleblowing portal launched in latest water company crackdown

Whistleblowing portal launched in latest water company crackdown

Tuesday, 26 March 2024

The Environment Agency's portal will allow water industry workers to report serious environmental wrongdoing by their organisations....

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Better flood protection planned for Isle of Wight

Better flood protection planned for Isle of Wight

Monday, 25 March 2024

More than 300 properties and businesses to be better protected from flooding and coastal erosion in Yaverland, Sandown and Shanklin on the Isle of Wig...

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Final consultation on permit for Hemerdon tungsten mine

Final consultation on permit for Hemerdon tungsten mine

Friday, 22 March 2024

Views sought on permit application for mineral processing facility....

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Thames 'mystery' boat owner faces costs of nearly £1,400

Thames 'mystery' boat owner faces costs of nearly £1,400

Friday, 22 March 2024

High fine sends warning message to those with unregistered boats. Patrols on Thames have already begun for summer 2024. ...

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Drop in sessions to be held on proposed Essex flood scheme

Drop in sessions to be held on proposed Essex flood scheme

Wednesday, 20 March 2024

People living in 3 Essex villages will have the chance to find out more about a proposed new Environment Agency flood scheme for the area. ...

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Going the extra mile: Environment Agency fleet awarded Earned Recognition status

Going the extra mile: Environment Agency fleet awarded Earned Recognition status

Friday, 15 March 2024

The Environment Agency is the first government agency recognised under the Earned Recognition scheme for high standards in safety and compliance acros...

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Anglers reminded of start of 2024 coarse fishing close season

Anglers reminded of start of 2024 coarse fishing close season

Friday, 15 March 2024

The Environment Agency is reminding anglers that the annual close season for coarse fishing is now in place. ...

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Project to reconnect River Otter to its floodplain complete

Project to reconnect River Otter to its floodplain complete

Friday, 15 March 2024

The landscape adaptation project will create 55 hectares of nationally rare wildlife habitat; compensating for regional habitat losses due to sea leve...

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Water company civil sanction sees money paid to charity

Water company civil sanction sees money paid to charity

Thursday, 14 March 2024

Northumbrian Water will pay £50,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after a burst pipe polluted Monkton Burn in Jarrow, South Tyneside. ...

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Helping Kent communities become more flood resilient

Helping Kent communities become more flood resilient

Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Homes in East Peckham and Five Oak Green better protected from flooding, as property flood resilience measures installed in 424 properties...

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Environment Agency officers saved life of trainer

Environment Agency officers saved life of trainer

Tuesday, 12 March 2024

Two members of the Environment Agency have been recognised after their actions helped save the life of a trainer who had a cardiac arrest in their off...

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Penzance businessman ordered to pay £54,900 for waste crimes

Penzance businessman ordered to pay £54,900 for waste crimes

Monday, 11 March 2024

POCA hearing orders Michael William Leah to pay £54,900. Sum to be paid within three months. When he was convicted of six offences in 2011 he paid onl...

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Work starts on new flood risk management scheme in Stoke on Trent

Work starts on new flood risk management scheme in Stoke on Trent

Thursday, 07 March 2024

The scheme will reduce flood risk to 333 homes and businesses from the Fowlea Brook during times of high rainfall and help to regenerate the area....

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Environment Agency and Angling Trust extend partnership to improve fisheries

Environment Agency and Angling Trust extend partnership to improve fisheries

Thursday, 07 March 2024

Following a competitive procurement process, the Environment Agency has awarded the new National Angling Strategic Services (NASS3) contract to the An...

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£1m project to bring boost for wildlife and water quality starts

£1m project to bring boost for wildlife and water quality starts

Tuesday, 05 March 2024

Work on a project to restore wetland habitat opens up 55km of river for fish and improve community access at a Tees Valley country park will start thi...

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Hazards of growing high risk crops in south west England

Hazards of growing high risk crops in south west England

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

Environment Agency warns poor crop-management could increase region's flooding and pollution...

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Environment Agency exploring options to reduce Birmingham floods

Environment Agency exploring options to reduce Birmingham floods

Wednesday, 28 February 2024

The Bourn Flood Risk Management Scheme aims to minimise flooding from the River Bourn by creating flood storage areas to hold excess water during high...

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Waste firm to pay £68,500 for liquid cyanide leak in Derbyshire

Waste firm to pay £68,500 for liquid cyanide leak in Derbyshire

Thursday, 22 February 2024

Nottingham Crown Court told how liquid escaped from ruptured tank on lorry into nearby ponds killing fish. ...

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Helen Wakeham speech at World Water Tech Innovation Summit

Helen Wakeham speech at World Water Tech Innovation Summit

Wednesday, 21 February 2024

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. ...

West Midlands anglers land total penalties of over £1,500

West Midlands anglers land total penalties of over £1,500

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Four anglers from Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, Telford, and Shrewsbury received total penalties of £1,507 for fishing without a licence. ...

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Severn Trent Water fined £2 million for ‘reckless’ pollution

Severn Trent Water fined £2 million for ‘reckless’ pollution

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

The Environment Agency prosecuted Severn Trent Water for huge discharge of raw sewage at treatment works in Stoke. ...

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Alan Lovell: NFU Conference 2024 'Farming and the Environment: the Regulator’s view'

Alan Lovell: NFU Conference 2024 'Farming and the Environment: the Regulator’s view'

Tuesday, 20 February 2024

Alan Lovell, Chair of the Environment Agency delivers speech at 2024 NFU Conference. ...

Northumberland man sentenced for illegal waste activity

Northumberland man sentenced for illegal waste activity

Wednesday, 14 February 2024

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....

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