Energy & Environment

Reporting water pollution to get easier with new online service

We're piloting a new digital service to provide more ways for the public to report environmental problems. Public reporting of water pollution, odours, flooding or wildlife concerns is an important way that we are alerted to environmental incidents. Our national ...

Updated: Tue Nov 12 2024

Strategic Renewables Unit Powers Ahead!

Successfully Tackling Underwater Noise This summer, the SRU, alongside other MMO teams, regulators and industry developers, collaborated to manage noisy activities in the Southern North Sea Special Area of Conservation. By working together, all parties successfully kept noise levels below ...

Updated: Thu Nov 07 2024

Coastal Planner Corner

The MMO have marine planners based around the English coast. Their role is to engage with you for the development, implementation, and monitoring of marine plans. You can find out who your local coastal planner is and their contact details ...

Updated: Wed Nov 06 2024

Day in the life of a new Environment Officer

The Environment Agency (EA) is improving the way the water industry is regulated. This includes expanding the number of our officers focused solely on regulation and compliance. Here, one of the EA's new dedicated Environment Officers, Rebecca Lee, explains why ...

Updated: Thu Oct 31 2024

New rules for fair milk contracts: supporting dairy producers

The Fair Dealings Obligations (Milk) Regulations (FDOM24) set out how milk purchase contracts must operate. FDOM24 is designed to make these contracts fairer and more transparent across the dairy industry. In this guest post, Richard Thompson, the Agricultural Supply Chain Adjudicator (ASCA) shares an overview of his role and what to look for in your contact.

Updated: Thu Oct 31 2024

Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort Project

My name is Pippa Keynes and I work for the Environment Agency in East Anglia. Part of my job involves managing the Bedford Ouse Floating Pennywort project. This was launched by Fisheries, biodiversity and geomorphology (FBG colleagues in 2017), and ...

Updated: Wed Oct 23 2024

Discover your local river and contribute to citizen science!

September was a fantastic month for bringing communities and stakeholders together in celebration of our rivers. There were events across the country as part of World Rivers Day on 22 September, seasonal mass monitoring of our rivers through national citizen ...

Updated: Wed Oct 23 2024

Stepping up maintenance to prepare for winter in Essex

David Simpson, from an Essex Field Team explains how Environment Agency preparations for winter begins well ahead of the long nights drawing in. As the summer was winding down, the Environment Agency was already undertaking important winter readiness actions. It ...

Updated: Wed Oct 23 2024

The One Food programme at the World One Health Congress, South Africa

Authors: Julie Bremner (Cefas), Grant Stentiford (Cefas), Flavie Vial (APHA), Essa Suleman (CSIR) The UK government's Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) and Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas) recently attended the 8th World One Health Congress (WOHC) ...

Updated: Wed Oct 16 2024

Working together to improve Waste Regulation

The Waste Industry Placement Scheme (WIPS) is a collaborative venture between the ourselves at the Environment Agency, alongside the Environmental Services Association (ESA) and their members, who operate recycling and waste treatment infrastructure. It aims to provide our officers with ...

Updated: Mon Oct 14 2024

Top tips when applying for a marine licence

A marine licence is required if you are undertaking any of the marine licensable activities listed in Section 66 of the Marine and Coastal Access Act 2009. The Marine Management Organisation (MMO) are the marine licensing authority for English inshore ...

Updated: Fri Oct 11 2024

A day in the life of a Fisheries Enforcement Officer

My name is John Groves, and I am a Fisheries Enforcement Officer (FEO) for the Environment Agency in East Anglia. Today I was out on the Norfolk Broads with a fellow Fisheries Enforcement Officer and the Broads Authority checking anglers' ...

Updated: Thu Oct 03 2024

FiPL spotlight: improving water quality in the North York Moors

As part of the Farming in Protected Landscapes (FiPL) programme, managed locally by the North York Moors National Park Authority, funding has been allocated to several projects within Fryup Dale. In this post, the project team shares its work to improve water quality in the North York Moors, from wetland creation to enhancing farm infrastructure.

Updated: Mon Sep 30 2024