Setting Agency accused of ‘scandalous neglect’ above rooster excrement entering River Wye | Rivers

Setting Agency accused of ‘scandalous neglect’ above rooster excrement entering River Wye | Rivers

The Environment Agency faces new allegations of neglect of the River Wye following a challenge by a conservation group located effluent and contaminated waters at free-variety egg farms flowing directly into watercourses.

Of 47 web pages visited in England and Wales in the Wye catchment, 19 had drains managing from

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Cop15: UK accused of hypocrisy over environment protection targets | Biodiversity

Cop15: UK accused of hypocrisy over environment protection targets | Biodiversity

The UK’s environment targets are a missed opportunity to protect Britain’s rainforests, cold water coral reefs, chalk streams and peat bogs, environmentalists have said, amid accusations of hypocrisy over the government’s position at Cop15.

On Friday, the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, announced the government’s legally binding targets at the UN

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