Environment Agency (EA)
The Environment Agency (EA) is the statutory environmental regulator in England. Established in April 1996 by the Environment Act 1995 to combine the functions of the (former) National Rivers Authority (NRA), Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Pollution (HMIP) and Waste Regulation Authorities.
They have over 13,000 employees divided into 14 areas, and are an excutive non-department public body, sponsored by DEFRA[1].
Responsibilities
Within England the EA are resonsible for:
- regulating major industry and waste
- water quality and resources
- regulating the treatment of contaminated land
- fisheries
- inland river, estuary and harbour navigations
- considering conservation and ecological impacts within our regulatory decisions
- conservation and ecology
As part of the regulatory role assocaited with waste, they issue and police environmental permits and collate and publish a number of key data sets associated with particular waste streams (ie packaging and batteries) as well as all tonnage through permitted sites via Waste Data Interrogator.
Environment Agency Area Structure Map[2]
List of Regions and Areas
North
- North East
- Cumbria and Lancashire
- Yorkshire
- Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire
Midlands
- Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire
- East Midlands
- West Midlands
South and South West
- Wessex
- Devon, Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
- Solent and South Downs
South East
- London
- East Anglia
- Thames
- Kent, South London and East Sussex
- Hertfordshire and North London
