Serious pollution incidents across England down 18%

Serious pollution incidents across England fell by 18% in 2017, compared to the year before.
That’s according to a new report published by the Environment Agency, which shows the total figure dropped to 419 – 68 of these took place on farms, 65 at waste management facilities and 52 were caused by water companies.
Other parts of the economy, such as the transport, public, services and domestic sector made up the bulk of other incidents.
The organisation has revealed it stopped 812 ill