{"id":391406,"date":"2026-04-14T11:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:09:07","slug":"severn-trent-pays-4-6m-in-record-pollution-levies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/391406\/","title":{"rendered":"Severn Trent pays \u00a34.6m in record pollution levies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Water company Severn Trent (STW) paid \u00a34.6m to the Environment Agency to settle pollution cases in the past year, the highest total of any provider. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Offences included unauthorised sewage discharges into the River Blythe in Solihull, Broadway Brook in Evesham, Worcestershire, and Marehay treatment works in Ripley, Derbyshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In total, a record \u00a38.5m was secured from water companies during the 2025-26 financial year, the government said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our focus is always on preventing pollutions before they happen, but when things do go wrong, we act quickly,  take ownership and put things right,&#8221; said a STW spokesperson. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Water company Severn Trent (STW) paid \u00a34.6m to the Environment Agency to settle pollution cases in the past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[242,85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-391406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}