How you can paddle and help us maintain the water environment
Alice Mayne, Deputy Director of Navigation at the Environment Agency, highlights how boaters and craft users can work with the Agency help to protect our waterways.
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Looking back at Toddbrook, twelve months on
Our Operations Manager Chris Wilson looks back at the Toddbrook incident twelve months on
The Environment Agency: Exiting Lockdown
EA Chief Executive Sir James Bevan reflects on how the Agency has operated throughout the coronavirus lockdown to keep the environment and communities safe
FCRM strategy op-ed - Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency
An op-ed from Emma Howard-Boyd on our FCRM strategy
EA2025: Unlocking nature
A look into our new 5 year plan, EA2025, which sets out how we will help to accelerate a just transition to a low-carbon and more climate resilient future.
Combined Sewer Overflows Explained
Combined Sewer Overflows Explained Recently we have seen prominent coverage in the Guardian which claims that untreated human waste was released into streams and rivers for more than 1.5 million hours in 2019. There are a number of points that …
Why we cut the grass on flood defences
by Adam Bayliss At this time of year you may see Environment Agency workers out and about cutting grass on embankments. When you see us you might wonder, is it really necessary? Especially when amongst the grass there may be …
Environment Agency Pride Blog Series LGBT+& Religion
Our Senior Champion of the LGBT+ Network Cath Tomlin, talks about her personal experiance.
The Environment Agency and the coronavirus crisis
We will get through the coronavirus crisis but until then every single action (however small) carries a greater significance. This is made clear by the Government’s simple instruction: Stay at home, protect the NHS, save lives. The Environment Agency is always focussed on …
Investment in fisheries continues as Environment Agency publishes the Fisheries Annual Report
One of the questions anglers ask the Environment Agency (EA) most often is “how do you spend our fishing licence money?” There is no short answer to that question, as every year we strive to make a real difference for …