Press release: Helping residents be prepared for flooding

The Environment Agency is working with residents in Chester-le-Street to help them be better prepared for flooding.




Press release: Man sentenced for assaulting Environment Agency officer

A North East man has been fined after he assaulted and threatened an Environment Agency officer investigating a pollution incident.




Notice: Paul Rackham Limited: application made to abstract water

The Environment Agency consult the public on certain applications for the abstraction and impoundment of water.

These notices explain:

  • what the application is about
  • which Environment Agency offices you can visit to see the application documents on the public register
  • when you need to comment by



Corporate report: Whistleblowing: Annual Report 1 April 2017 to 31 March 2018

As part of the public interest disclosure legislation in England and Wales, commonly known as ‘Whistleblowing’, we have an obligation to act on third party disclosures made to us concerning malpractice on environmental matters. Workers, who wish to make a protected disclosure, which is in the public interest, about their employer, can choose to raise their concerns with the employer directly, or otherwise through a number of other routes (further guidance is given on Whistleblowing for employees page).




FOI release: Information submitted to the European Commission following Ministerial meeting on air quality

Information submitted to the European Commission following Ministerial meeting on air quality in Brussels on 30 January 2018.