School children take part in tree planting to help improve the environment

Local school children in Egremont have planted roughly 200 trees to help increase biodiversity in the area and reduce anti- social behaviour.




Leicestershire farmer pays over £15,000 for illegally discharging silage effluent

The Environment Agency has successfully prosecuted a Leicestershire farmer for illegally discharging silage effluent into a brook causing the death of around 80 fish.




Man arrested and illegal fishing net seized at Newbiggin by the Sea

Fisheries Enforcement Officers from the Environment Agency arrested one man on suspicion of poaching sea trout at Newbiggin by the Sea.




Finance, resilience, net zero and nature

Emma Howard Boyd, Chair of the Environment Agency and interim Chair of the Green Finance Institute | UK Centre for Greening Finance and Investment Annual Forum at The Institution of Civil Engineers | 4 July 2022




Construction continues on Kendal Flood Risk Management Scheme, with work scheduled to start at two more locations over the coming weeks

Work starts on two new locations on multi-million-pound flood scheme