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Environment Agency Chief Executive Sir James Bevan's speech at a Westminster Energy, Environment & Transport Forum conference on future environmental standards.
Environment Agency successfully prosecutes Severn Trent Water for sewage discharges.
Thames Water has now accrued £32.4m in fines since 2017 for 11 cases of water pollution.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
Legislation will improve air and water quality, tackle waste, increase recycling, halt the decline of species, and improve our natural environment.
Change will further bolster the present raft of measures planned for Environment Bill which will tackle water pollution.
Sir James Bevan sets out hopes of keeping the 1.5°C target alive at COP26, but warns whatever is agreed the damage from climate change will be felt for decades
Sir James Bevan, Chief Executive of the Environment Agency, at a Royal Society Conference, 19 October 2021.
The Environment Agency has today welcomed a new chalk stream strategy to protect ‘England’s rainforests’
The Environment Agency has issued the first ever licences to abstract water on the Isles of Scilly.
Consultation on plans to modernise water abstraction and enhance the Environment Agency's powers to protect groundwater
The Environment Agency has prosecuted Yorkshire Water Services Limited for illegally discharging sewage effluent into the Potter Carr Nature Reserve.
Environment Agency consults on changes to better protect the environment and long-term water security
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer.
Make the right choices when visiting beaches, rivers and lakes this summer
Review of water investment programme to ensure water companies’ money delivers better outcomes for environment.
A pioneering new fund to drive private investment in nature and tackle climate change has been awarded to 27 projects
Latest annual report by the Environment Agency shows that despite improvements, certain water companies are still failing in their duty to the environment
Southern Water sentenced to pay record £90 million in fines for widespread pollution after pleading guilty to 6,971 unpermitted sewage discharges.
Measures set out to encourage water efficient products and introduce more consistent approach to leakage; seven new areas designated in serious water stress
Environment Agency Chair Emma Howard Boyd speaks about water scarcity at the WWT event 'Water Security in a Changing Environment'
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