Environment
Environment Agency invests over £5bn in water protection
The Environment Agency has announced an investment of over £5 billion to be dispersed over five years to protect England’s...
Environment Agency
Environment
Environment Agency removes 700t of weeds from London river
The Environment Agency has said that over 700t of floating pennywort has been pulled out from the Duke of Northumberland...
Environment
Natural flood management must be a 'core part' of flood defences
Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan has set out how natural flood management must be a core part of...
Environment
Cumbrian river restorations wins European Riverprize
A programme to restore and improve rivers in the Lake District has beaten competition from across Europe to win the...
Agri-Business
Climate adaptation has become the 'Cinderella' of climate change - EA
Climate adaptation has too often been seen as the “Cinderella” of climate action according to the chief executive of the...
Environment
Yorkshire Water secures drought permits to protect water supplies
The Environment Agency has issued drought permits that will allow Yorkshire Water to conserve water in 12 reservoirs and secure...
Agri-Business
Winter rainfall won't be enough to prevent drought past spring
Average rainfall over winter will not be enough to prevent drought conditions in some areas past spring of 2023, the...
Sheep
Couple petitions to dredge River Derwent after losing 58 lambs in flood
A farming couple in Yorkshire has started a petition to dredge the River Derwent near Keswick on the back of...
Environment
Truck used for fly-tipping crushed by Environment Agency
A tipper truck linked to fly-tipping illegally dumped waste across London has been seized and crushed by the Environment Agency....
Rural Life
Doncaster flood wall to be repaired following 2019 storms
The Environment Agency is starting a project to repair a 60m flood wall in Sprotbrough, Doncaster, which was damaged during...
Rural Life
Essex man jailed for 14 months for waste offences
A 40-year-old man who ignored Environment Agency warnings to stop illegally importing and burning waste at two Essex sites has...
Environment
Eustice confirms next Environment Agency chair
Environment Secretary George Eustice has today (Tuesday, July 19) confirmed that Alan Lovell DL is to be the next chair...
Environment
Environmental performance of water companies falls to lowest recorded level
The Environment Agency has today (Thursday, July 14) released its annual report on the environmental performance of England’s nine water...
Environment
Biodiversity crisis will kill humans, Environment Agency warns
The scale of loss of complex natural ecosystems in England and globally could pose an existential risk to human survival,...
Rural Life
Construction continues on Kendal Flood Risk management scheme
The Environment Agency and contractors VolkerStevin are about to start work on two new locations and have already completed part...
Environment
'Widespread greenwashing' is comprising efforts to prepare for climate change - EA
Widespread greenwashing is compromising efforts to prepare for climate impacts like floods and heatwaves, the chair of the Environment Agency...
Agri Politics
Eustice selects new chair of Environment Agency
Environment Secretary George Eustice has selected Alan Lovell DL as the government’s preferred candidate to succeed Emma Howard Boyd as...
Agri-Business
Midlands farm company fined for watercourse pollution
A farm company in the West Midlands has been fined a total of £120,000 for illegal discharge of anaerobic digestate...
