The Latest Breaking News from Environment Agency

Labour under fire over plans for 40 more ‘greenwashing’ waste incinerators

Communities across the UK are fighting ‘catastrophic’ proposals to build new energy-from-waste plants

The Guardian - UK · Dec 29, 2024

More than 540,000 London properties at high or medium risk of flash floods, warn environment chiefs

The Environment Agency stressed one in eight properties in the city face the threat as the UK is hit with more torrential downpours amid climate change

Evening Standard · Dec 17, 2024

More than 6m homes at risk of flooding in England, says Environment Agency

Report says rivers, the sea and surface water endangering properties and that number could hit 8m by 2050

The Guardian - UK · Dec 17, 2024

Swimming status of Ilkley’s River Wharfe in limbo over sewage pollution

Stretch of river in West Yorkshire was first to get bathing status in 2020 but has since recorded poor water quality

The Guardian - UK · Dec 16, 2024

Hamdan bin Zayed issues Decree to protect soil from degradation in Abu Dhabi

Sheikh Hamdan bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler's Representative in Al Dhafra Region and Chairman of the Environment Agency - Abu Dhabi (EAD), issued Decree No. Read further on Dynamite News:

Dynamite News · Dec 12, 2024

British Red Cross warns more investment needed to prepare UK for future floods

The charity deployed crisis response teams following Storm Bert and Storm Darragh in the past few weeks.

Evening Standard · Dec 11, 2024

Red Cross calls for more investment to prepare UK for floods

Charity deployed crisis response teams following Bert and Darragh storms

The Independent UK · Dec 11, 2024

Storm Darragh – latest: More than 150,000 homes still without power as first victim named as football coach

The first victim of Storm Darragh, who was killed after a tree fell on to his van in Lancashire, has been named locally as football coach Paul Fiddler

The Independent UK · Dec 5, 2024

Staffordshire residents plagued by ‘the stink’ celebrate shutdown of landfill site

Campaigners say news that Walleys Quarry in Silverdale has been told to close has given them ‘huge relief, just elation’

The Guardian - UK · Nov 29, 2024

Record number of English bathing sites have poor water quality, finds Environment Agency

Of 450 rivers, lakes and beaches in England, 37 did not meet the minimum standard for bathing water quality

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024