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New round of Air Quality Grants for local authorities opens to benefit communities and reduce the impact of polluted air on people's health
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
This report aims to provide the citizens of Northern Ireland, and the wider air quality community, with user-friendly information on local air quality monitoring.
We sought views on developing our strategy for the management of urban diffuse water pollution in England.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
Farmer Derek Dyer contaminated a private water supply and polluted a stream after a slurry store built from farmyard manure collapsed.
Authorities receiving warning of European Court of Justice (ECJ) infraction fines regarding Air Quality Directive.
Techniques that analysts, consultants and academics can use to assess the effect of air quality on human health and the environment.
Guidance on how to use the pollution inventory electronic data capture (PIEDC) system to submit your data.
This project measured levels of pollutants at two managed retreat sites to establish whether geochemical tests should be used as part of the process of choosing suitable sites.
Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) summary of recommendations for quantifying the health effects of air pollutants.
This study designed a direct observation method to record people's daily river use activities across dry and wet seasons,
This release covers figures on the environmental permitting system for small industries by local authorities that helps to reduce any pollution they may cause and, in particular, helps to improve air quality.
You may use this calculator to estimate the loss to the public following a pollution incident to England's waterways.
Work to build a £9 million mine water treatment scheme that will reduce harmful metal pollution in rivers in the North East and Cumbria is nearing completion.
Revision to the limits of liability (1992 Civil Liability Convention) and note to maintain compulsory insurance against pollution damage.
Report to assess the impact of highway runoff on receiving waters in order to assist in the future design of highway drainage systems.
Draft regulations to introduce air quality measures to control sulphur and nitrogen oxide emissions from ships.
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