Pollution incidents Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

11 Aug 2016

EA expects water companies’ serious pollution incidents to “trend towards zero” by 2020

The size of fines for water company pollution incidents has been growing steadily over the last two years following a fundamental change in the legal framework. This report on the environmental performance of the water comes close on the heels of another major company fine for Severn Trent. Environmental Performance Assessment The Environment Agency ‘is […]

15 Jul 2015

Pollution isn’t going away – Pollution incident report for 2014 – Environment Agency

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This summary report provides an overview of pollution incidents that occurred in 2014 including: A breakdown by incident category – the summary is about the most important incidents A breakdown of air and water incidents The breakdown of incidents whether by regulated or unregulated operations Agriculture and the water industry were responsible for a large […]