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This multi-agency partnership, hosted by the UK Health Security Agency, seeks to ensure joined-up action on air pollution across the health and care sector.
This section describes the range of mechanisms that control the use, reduction and cessation hazardous chemicals and priority substances.
Latest annual Environmental Performance Assessment shows some modest improvements in water companies’ performance.
Alvis Brothers Ltd ordered to pay fines and costs of over £23,700 for causing pollution
A consultation on banning wet wipes containing plastic across the UK has been launched today under plans to tackle plastic pollution and clean up waterways.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
The groundwater protection code of practice on how to prevent pollution from petrol, diesel and other fuel tanks.
Rules farmers and landowners must follow if their land is in a nitrate vulnerable zone (NVZ).
Northumbrian Water will pay £50,000 to Tyne Rivers Trust after a burst pipe polluted Monkton Burn in Jarrow, South Tyneside.
New international requirements, effective 01 January 2003 for provision of shipboard pollution emergency plans.
This document contains the following information: International Convention on the Establishment of an International Fund for Compensation for Oil Pollution Damage, 1992.
Data on operational risk appraisal compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2016.
Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2022.
Map showing which rivers are polluted by abandoned metal mines in Weardale
This document contains the following information: Demographic change and the environment: twenty-ninth report
The sources and scale of plastics in the environment, their impact, and how the issue is being tackled.
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