The House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee has launched a new inquiry into nitrates pollution in the UK.

Sheffield firm Firth Rixson Metals Ltd has been ordered to pay a fine of £80,000 after pleading guilty to polluting a watercourse in Glossop.

In a case brought by the Environment Agency, Yorkshire Water has pleaded guilty to charges relating to a water pollution incident in Doncaster which led to the deaths of several hundred fish.

A husband and wife farming partnership at  Rosehill Farm, Dymock,have each been fined £5,500 and each ordered to pay £25,798 in costs along with a victim surcharge of £170.

The Environment Agency has flagged up what it describes as a “worrying increase” in the number of pollution incidents reported to it in West Yorkshire that on investigation are attributable to the construction sector. 

A new report published today by WWF-UK says 40% of rivers in England and Wales are polluted by sewage and is calling for urgent action by the Government and water industry regulator Ofwat.

United Utilities has announced that the court hearing in relation to the 2015 cryptosporidium incident at its Franklaw water treatment works has concluded – the root cause was identified as run-off water from agricultural land following severe rainfall.

Ibama, Brazil's Environmental Agency yesterday rejected the application for a licence to drill in the mouth of the Amazon Basin by the French company Total operating in a joint venture with BP. Ibama,

In prosecutions brought by the Environment Agency, South West Water Ltd has been ordered to pay more than £142,000 in fines and costs for discharging poor quality effluent from two of its sewage treatment plants.

United Utilities has pleaded guilty to the supply of water unfit for human consumption following a cryptosporidium outbreak at its Franklaw Water Treatment Works near Preston in 2015 which left around 300,000 householders without tap water for more than three weeks.