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Water companies required to do more to protect environment

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 2 February 2022 - Categories: Pollution
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  There has been coverage in the Times, Guardian, Business Green and elsewhere about the Government’s priorities set out today for the water industry, including doing more to protect the environment and reduce storm overflows. The new Strategic Policy Statement …

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Measures to reduce harm from storm overflows to be made law

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 29 March 2021 - Categories: Weekly stories
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Today we look at coverage in the Guardian, Telegraph, Times and Yorkshire Post about our plans to bring in legislation to reduce sewage discharges by water companies into rivers.

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Coverage of the Environmental Audit Committee report into ‘fast fashion’

Posted by: Defra Press Office, Posted on: 19 February 2019 - Categories: Weekly stories
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Today's blog looks at the Environmental Audit Committee report that is calling on the government to make clothing manufacturers pay more towards collecting and recycling the waste they create.

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