Environment Agency needs ?120m grant restored to protect rivers, says CEO

MPs warned of ?40m budget cut hindering effort to monitor sewage discharges and farming activityThe head of the Environment Agency has called for the government to reinstate a ?120m grant to help increase surveillance of water companies and cut pollution in rivers.Sir James Bevan, chief executive of the agency, told MPs that water companies and the farming industry, the two main polluters of rivers, were not doing enough to protect the environment. Continue reading...