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Northern Ireland’s bathing water regulations ‘out of step’, report finds

Stormont has been urged to update regulations to protect those swimming in Northern Ireland’s lakes and at the coast. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (Daera) has been handed 11 recommendations to update the Bathing Water ...

19 Nov 2024 at 00:01

Regulators ‘may have broken the law against sewage’

Regulators may have breached environmental law by allowing water companies to discharge sewage outside of exceptional circumstances, the Government watchdog has found. Combined sewer overflows (CSOs) are only supposed to be used after periods of ...

12 Sept 2023 at 10:10

Northern Ireland

Overdue plan to help improve water quality should be enacted urgently – report

A plan to help drive water quality improvement across Northern Ireland’s rivers, lakes and coastal waters needs to be strengthened and implemented without delay, a report has said. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said the failure ...

03 Sept 2024 at 00:01

Local News

Lough Neagh crisis will become ‘common experience’ without action, MLAs warned

The environmental crisis at Lough Neagh will become a “common experience” across Northern Ireland if nutrient pollution is not addressed, MLAs have been told. Dame Glenys Stacey, chairwoman of the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), ...

29 May 2025 at 17:33

Government may have failed to comply with law over marine target, watchdog says

The Environment Department (Defra) may have failed to comply with green laws over plans to restore and protect the UK’s seas, a watchdog has warned. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP), which aims to hold government and other ...

19 Sept 2025 at 17:19

‘Precarious’ state of environment must be national priority, Government warned

Toxic air that harms health, and water pollution from sewage and farming must be tackled as urgent priorities, the new environmental watchdog has warned. Overfishing and damage to sea floors from trawling, loss of natural habitats, ...

12 May 2022 at 01:25

Government ‘largely off track’ on environmental targets, says watchdog

The Government is “largely off track” on its environmental targets while many policies have been announced but not implemented, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has said. In its second annual report, the watchdog said ...

18 Jan 2024 at 00:01

Local News

Overdue plan to help improve water quality should be enacted urgently – report

03 Sept 2024 at 10:33

Watchdog: Defra may have failed to comply with law over bee-killing pesticide

The Government may have failed to comply with environmental laws when it granted use of a banned pesticide toxic to bees, a watchdog has warned. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) is investigating the Environment ...

02 Dec 2024 at 15:19

Government refuses emergency use of banned bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet

The Government has refused to allow the emergency use of a banned pesticide on sugar beet to protect bees and other pollinators. The application to use the pesticide had been made by British Sugar and the National Farmers’ ...

23 Jan 2025 at 22:41

Get nature-friendly farming ‘right’ to meet legal green goals, watchdog warns

The Government should “put the wind in the sails” of landscape-wide nature-friendly farming schemes to meet key environment targets, a watchdog has warned. The Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) said progress on ...

16 Jan 2025 at 00:01

Watchdog accused of failing to hold Environment Agency to account

The Environment Agency should be investigated for failing to seek out and punish farmers who were unlawfully causing nitrogen pollution but the watchdog was yet to act, two green groups have said. WWF and ClientEarth ...

20 Dec 2023 at 15:23

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