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Environment Agency chiefs moot budget ‘flexibility’ to boost enforcement efforts
The two heads of the Environment Agency, Sir James Bevan and Emma Howard Boyd, have told MPs that they would like to have more flexibility in how they are able to allocate funding, in order to assist in improving the agency’s struggling enforcement operations.
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‘Ella’s law’: Clean Air Bill returns to parliament
?Having won first place in the Lords’ private members’ bills ballot, Green peer Baroness Jones has reintroduced her Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill.
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Landowner pleads guilty to all charges in river Lugg case
A landowner who devastated wildlife habitats through a series of unauthorised works to a stretch of the protected river Lugg in Herefordshire has pleaded guilty to a series of charges brought against him by the EA and Natural England.
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Power to designate protected sites should remain with Natural England, says OEP
The designation of England’s protected sites must follow a “clear and transparent process”, according to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), which has advised against giving the power to designate sites to the secretary of state.
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Natural England creates ‘super’ Somerset national nature reserve
Natural England has formally declared the creation of a new “super” national nature reserve (NNR) in Somerset, which it says will expand the size of existing reserves in the area by nearly 2,200 hectares.