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Environment Agency

July 2024

  • The Great Ouse in Bedfordshire after bursting its banks earlier this year. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way – podcast

  • Chickens at a commercial poultry farm.

    Chicken industry must halt expansion to stop ‘environmental scandal’ in River Severn

  • Drone view of treatment works at Mogden, showing 20 circular tanks, each with a large arm that scrapes around the tank

    Rise in sewage pollution from Thames Water’s ageing treatment works

  • Brown sewage foams on the River Thames

    Environment Agency refuses to reveal directors’ possible conflicts of interest

June 2024

  • Earth mover on an active landfill site.

    Landfills across England could be leaking harmful toxic ooze, warn experts

  • A heron on the bank of a river

    Citizen testing finds 75% of rivers in Britain in poor ecological health

  • Protesters from campaign group Surfers Against Sewage

    Revealed: the ‘catastrophic scale’ of sewage spills in England and Wales

  • Flood water in York after the River Ouse overtopped its banks in 2022

    Brief letters
    In defence of the Environment Agency’s dedicated but overstretched staff

  • Outdoor clothing brands still using ‘forever chemicals’ despite health risk

  • The long read
    Dirty waters: how the Environment Agency lost its way

  • Flood alerts at record level in Great Britain in first four months of 2024

May 2024

  • A 'Bathing is not advised' sign near the bathing area of the River Wharfe in Ilkley on July 11, 2023

    Bids for bathing water status in England paused in blow for river cleanups

  • An aerial view of a coastline with discharge flowing into a brown river

    Environment Agency chief admits regulator buries freedom of information requests

  • People swimming and paddle-boarding in the water at Wallingford beach on a sunny day

    England gets 27 new bathing sites – but no guarantee they’ll be safe for swimming

  • Sewage and plant debris floats on the Jubilee River in Dorney Reach, Buckinghamshire.

    The Guardian view on Britain’s dirty waterways: a failure of industry and regulation

April 2024

  • Maureen Gilbert with her parents

    The floods
    The tragic death of Maureen Gilbert: why did a much-loved mother die in her flooded home?

  • An aerial view of the Welsh village of Llandogo and the River Wye.

    ‘Working with the landscape is a more sensible way of managing our rivers’: should we dismantle the UK’s dams?

March 2024

  • Sewage being discharged into a brook after heavy rainfall

    Water companies in England face outrage over record sewage discharges

    Call for environmental emergency to be declared after data reveals 105% rise in raw sewage discharges over past 12 months
  • The environment secretary, Steve Barclay

    Steve Barclay apologises for not recusing himself sooner from incinerator decision

    Environment secretary opposed waste plant plans that must be approved by body he oversees
  • Steve Barclay leaving No 10

    Steve Barclay under scrutiny for failing to declare potential conflict of interest

    Environment secretary has been vocal opponent of waste plant plans that must be approved by body he oversees
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