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Waste Crime Engagement Specialists take to the stage at the Environmental Services and Solutions Expo in a bid to stop waste crime

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Waste crime is estimated to cost the UK economy around £1 billion per year. Often this money is taken away from essential services to deal with the damage caused by waste criminals. Waste crime can endanger people's safety, undercut reputable …

A day in the life – plant surveying on the River Mimram with Emma, a Senior Environmental Monitoring Officer 

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Every June to September, Environment Agency monitoring officers conduct surveys of aquatic plant life (known as macrophytes) to determine the health of our riverine ecosystems. This year, I was lucky enough to spend the day on the River Mimram with …

Day in the life of a new Environment Officer

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The Environment Agency (EA) is improving the way the water industry is regulated. This includes expanding the number of our officers focused solely on regulation and compliance. Here, one of the EA’s new dedicated Environment Officers, Rebecca Lee, explains why …

How the EA uses its enforcement powers to hold water companies to account

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Since 2015, we have successfully concluded 63 prosecutions against water and sewerage companies for pollution offences securing fines of over £151 million. The most recent of these include a £2 million fine for Severn Trent Water after allowing huge amounts …

Monitoring antimicrobial resistance in the environment

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Microorganisms drive many of the biogeochemical processes that make the Earth habitable for people. These processes involve the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust. However, some microorganisms can cause …

Advances in flood forecasting - The Environment Agency / Met Office partnership in action

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Environment Agency Chief Executive reviewing flood modelling on screen with colleague from Flood Forecasting Centre

By Philip Duffy, Environment Agency CEO. This week is Flood Action Week, our annual media campaign to raise awareness about how everyone can take action to know their flood risk and prepare.   Today alongside Penny Endersby, Chief Executive of the …

Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort Project

Floating pennywort before and after at Brampton

My name is Pippa Keynes and I work for the Environment Agency in East Anglia. Part of my job involves managing the Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort project. This was launched by  Fisheries, biodiversity and geomorphology (FBG colleagues in 2017), and …

Stepping up maintenance to prepare for winter in Essex

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EA officer uses a robot mower to carry out maintenance on an embankment.

David Simpson, from an Essex Field Team explains how Environment Agency preparations for winter begins well ahead of the long nights drawing in.  As the summer was winding down, the Environment Agency was already undertaking important winter readiness actions. It …

Working in partnership to manage surface water flooding

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Surface water flooding is localised and complex. There are currently 3.2 million properties in areas at risk in England. As the September floods have shown, it is a real and growing threat to life, property, infrastructure, and to the economy. …