Creating a better place

National Apprenticeship Week: Natalie’s experience on the Environmental Practitioner Degree

Environment Agency, 7 February 2024 - Climate change, Environment Agency, Invasive species, Our staff, Sustainability

Natalie Parkinson is a 19-year-old student from Stoke-On-Trent. A year ago, she moved to Ely in Cambridgeshire to do a five-year Environmental Practitioner Degree Apprenticeship with the Environment Agency. It’s a full-time, paid job with a finite end but, assuming …

Chasing down the money to stop waste crime

Environment Agency, 7 February 2024 - Waste

There is an old saying – ‘where there’s muck there’s brass’ and criminals have worked that out. We know organised criminals who make their money through serious and organised crimes, such as drugs and firearms, are using the waste management …

Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan: One year on

Environment Agency, 2 February 2024 - Climate change, Environment Agency, Sustainability

Our chair Alan Lovell reflects on our progress to achieve government’s Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) goals. One year ago, the government published the Environmental Improvement Plan (EIP) to halt and reverse the decline of nature in our country. With climate …

Explaining How Bathing Waters are Monitored, Warnings Issued and Results Published

Environment Agency, 1 February 2024 - Environment Agency

We know how important our bathing waters are to local communities and the health and wellbeing benefits they deliver. The Environment Agency has an important role to play in the regulation of bathing waters, providing scientific and legal advice to government and informing communities about where to take a dip safely.

The coast is clear: strengthening shoreline management planning

Environment Agency, 30 January 2024 - Environment Agency, Flood, Flood Planning

Article written by Julie Foley, our Director of Flood Risk Strategy and National Adaptation, Environment Agency Our treasured coast is a dynamic and exciting place for all those that live, work and play there. It’s a complex environment and how …

Water transformation: source to sea.

Helen Wakeham, 25 January 2024 - Cleaner Seas, Fisheries and biodiversity, Water

Helen Wakeham, Director of Water Transformation at the Environment Agency delivered a keynote speech today (25 January) at the annual Coastal Futures Conference in London. Here, Helen shares her thoughts on the history and future of our estuarine, coastal, and …

We’ve joined forces with MSC to stop illegal waste exports

Environment Agency, 24 January 2024 - Environment Agency, Waste

Each year our illegal waste exports team in our National Enforcement Service stops between 200 and 450 containers full of waste that does not comply with waste export regulations, such as untreated and hazardous waste. In our blog last month, we …

East Anglia’s work protecting eels

Environment Agency, 19 January 2024 - Environment Agency

Dan Hayter, a fisheries specialist, explains how eels historically became critically endangered and what the Environment Agency are doing to protect this species.

Working together to shut down waste criminals

Environment Agency, 17 January 2024 - Environment Agency, Waste

At Hampshire & Isle of Wight Constabulary, our dedicated Rural and Wildlife Crime Team, Country Watch, have been working closely with partner agencies and other local policing teams to tackle the scourge of waste crime.

Bolder leadership for surface water flooding

defrablogs, 15 January 2024 - Environment Agency, Flood

Article written by Julie Foley, our Director of Flood Risk Strategy and Natural Adaptation, Environment Agency Surface water flooding happens when there is heavy rainfall and there is so much rainwater that it overwhelms drainage systems. Instead, rainwater collects over the …

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