Legislation will strengthen regulators' powers to ban bonuses and impose tougher penalties on water firms, including custodial sentences for executives who break the law
Beer importer makes payment to Keep Britain Tidy, after Environment Agency finds company failed to register with packaging waste scheme for 18 years
Environment Agency promises 'tougher' regulatory approach as it reveals total pollution incidents from sewerage and water supply assets increased for second year running
More than one-in-10 areas of prime, grade one, farmland hit by at least one flood warning during winter 2023, new analysis finds
Money raised from fines for pollution breaches is to be reinvested in new Water Restoration Fund
More than four million hours of raw sewage thought to have been discharged into rivers and seas last year
Think tank argues that repositioning climate adaptation within Whitehall could elevate it from 'Cinderella' status to key concern
Lloyds pledges £250,000 to Knepp Wildland Foundation, West Cumbria Rivers Trust, and the National Trust via the expanding Projects for Nature initiative
Schemes using nature to boost England's flood resilience are to receive fresh government funding over the next three years
New unit will be tasked with carrying out financial investigations targeted at the waste sector