Thousands of pollution incidents in England downgraded without site visit, data suggests
via theguardian.com
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Exclusive: Whistleblower figures show large rise in ‘serious’ to ‘minor’ downgrades based on water company evidence Environment Agency (EA) staff have downgraded thousands of serious pollution incidents by water companies in England without visiting to investigate, data unearthed by freedom of information (FoI) requests suggests. The figures were obtained by Robert Forrester, a whistleblower who […]