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United Kingdom: Floods: Environment Agency frontline staff hit by cuts, whistleblowers reveal

2014-02-10 13:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: Whistleblowers within the under-fire Environment Agency have told the Guardian that frontline flood staff are being cut, despite pledges by its chairman that reducing the agency's emergency response was a "red line". Weeks of savage weather have battered England and frontline EA staff have been working round the clock to ensure timely warnings, rapid responses and straining defences continue to defend over a million highly vulnerable properties. But deep government cuts to the EA budgets means...

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