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Why what we do with our rubbish matters

Environment Agency, 22 May 2024 - Environment Agency, Waste

Rebecca Mason, Senior Adviser in our Enforcement and Waste Crime Team, shares why she works for the Environment Agency and why what we do with our rubbish matters. I have worked for the Environment Agency for over 20 years in …

How the Environment Agency is conserving and enhancing biodiversity

Environment Agency, 22 May 2024 - Environment Agency, Fisheries and biodiversity

Hi, I am Tony Grayling and I’m one of the new Directors of Nature and Place, along with my colleague Jennie Donovan, at the Environment Agency. Today we are celebrating International Day of Biodiversity, and I wanted to share with …

What’s the foam you sometimes see along Britain’s coastlines?

Environment Agency, 21 May 2024 - Cleaner Seas, Cleaner Seas, Climate change, Environment Agency, Water

Have you ever been at the coast and noticed a frothy foam at the water’s edge? From April to August, it’s fairly common to see these discoloured, sometimes creamy-looking and bad smelling foamy patches in the sea. You might think …

Task force Fukushima – building trust to protect people and the environment.

Environment Agency, 16 May 2024 - Regulated industry

By Jo Nettleton, Chief Regulator for the Environment Agency. ‘Recently I was delighted to be appointed in the newly created role of Chief Regulator at the Environment Agency. My role is to make sure that the EA is a future-focussed, …

How the Environment Agency monitors and tests bathing water quality

Environment Agency, 15 May 2024 - Cleaner Seas, Environment Agency, Water

Today (15 May) marks the start of this year’s bathing water season. Between now and the end of September, millions of people will head to bathing waters to relax and swim. Following Defra’s recent announcement of 27 new bathing waters, …

Working in partnership to enhance approaches to surface water risk management

Environment Agency, 10 May 2024 - Environment Agency, Flood, Flood Maintenance, Flood Planning

In recent years, record rainfall events nationally and internationally have served to underline the threat of surface water flooding, particularly to our cities and urban areas, writes Caroline Douglass, Environment Agency Executive Director of Flood and Coastal Risk Management. Examples …

The EA-funded farm group bringing people together to improve sustainability

Environment Agency, 9 May 2024 - agriculture, Sustainability, Waste, Water

The Environment Agency (EA) have funded a project to engage and work with farmers in the Upper Roding Catchment. We’ve worked in collaboration with the project lead, environmental charity Thames21, and the Roding, Beam and Ingrebourne (RBI) Catchment Partnership to …

Operation Angola – we need your help

Environment Agency, 8 May 2024 - Environment Agency, Regulated industry, Waste

Emma Viner, Enforcement and Investigations Manager, writes about just one of the many waste crime investigations the Environment Agency is dealing with. Waste crime is a major issue across the country which is often not fully understood. The Environmental Services …

Reducing methane emissions to help combat climate change

Environment Agency, 10 April 2024 - Climate change, Environment Agency, Regulated industry

The Environment Agency has set out in one place what it is doing to help reduce methane emissions in England, bringing together all their work in a new Methane Action Plan (2024-26). Mark Ellis-Jones, the national Climate Change and Energy …

Farming rules for water: The importance of Nutrient Management Planning in farming

Environment Agency, 10 April 2024 - agriculture, Environment Agency, Regulated industry, Sustainability

Following last week’s blog about soil testing, we’re now looking at another area where we often find issues during a farm inspection – nutrient management planning. Around 30% of farms we inspected last year weren’t able to provide evidence of …

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Environment Agency explains that pollution in Windermere is reducing but more needs to be done to tackle all sources of pollution, not just sewage