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Understand when your activities affect groundwater, what permissions you may need and how to prevent pollution.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Flood and coastal erosion risk management grant-in-aid projects: approval forms and guidance for risk management authorities.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when a person who is authorised under the Misuse of Drugs Regulations can store, sort and denature controlled drugs that have become waste, at another place.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
A summary of the river basin planning process the Environment Agency and others have followed in reviewing and updating the river basin management plans.
Use this whistleblowing form to report an environmental issue by your employer.
Use this service to apply for yearly registration of PCB equipment with the Environment Agency.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
This section will help you develop your application for a permit for a landfill or to deposit waste on land as a recovery operation. It will help you decide what information you must include in your application.
How to inspect waste, check paperwork, and sample and test the waste you accept.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
Reduce the risk of disease and find out where listed diseases have been confirmed in England and Wales
FCERM projects can share the costs using national and local sources of funding.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
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