Environment
Environment Agency urged farmers to report pollution incidents following a situation in Cornwall where a spill of digestate resulted in a major fish kill.
The latest EPA report has ranked 2024 as the worst year for environmental performance from water companies in England since 2011.
A Glouchestershire farmer has been convicted of illegally discharging slurry into a river due to a leaking pipe and has been fined £7,048.
N.Ireland
A farmer in Northern Ireland has been convicted in court of a water pollution offence. Martin...
Farmers For Action (FFA) has requested agriculture and environment Minister Andrew Muir to arrange a meeting about Lough Neagh
A NI farmer has been convicted for a water pollution offence under Article 7(1)(a) of the Water (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 as amended
DAERA has confirmed that a farmer in Northern Ireland has been fined in court for a water pollution offence
The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in NI has launched a public consultation on a ‘Plastic Pollution Plan’
A court has found a Somerset pig farmer guilty of polluting a local stream after constructing an illegal slurry lagoon.
A court in Northern Ireland has fined a farmer for a water pollution offence arising from “farm effluent” being discharged into a river.
A 70-year-old man has been convicted and fined in a NI court over an incident involving the pollution of a river with agricultural effluent.
A court in Northern Ireland has convicted and fined a Co. Fermanagh farmer for polluting around 600m of a waterway.
A court in Northern Ireland has fined a man £500 plus a £15 offenders levy for a water pollution...
Rural Life
A dairy farm in Lancashire has been ordered to pay over £10,000 by the Lancaster Magistrates’ Court for polluting a watercourse with slurry
Agriculture has been attributed as the “principal cause” of pollution in Lough Erne, according to Minister of Justice in the Northern...
A farmer has been fined after his "reckless" poulltion of a 2-mile stretch of a stream that flows...
East Derry MLA Claire Sugden has called for better messaging from government departments and local councils about the current risks of blue-green algae.
Other
A farmer has been fined for obstructing an Environment Agency officer who was taking water samples of suspected pollution on his farm.
