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Did you mean Pollution
How to report marine pollution incidents, the response to an incident and how to get approval to use an oil spill treatment product.
Work to limit heavy metals polluting rivers in Upper Teesdale is due to start next week
Work is about to start on a series of innovative climate services that use the unique vantage point of space to provide businesses and other organisations with information about environmental risks and how to mitigate them.
A report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) on the effects of particulate air pollution on mortality in the UK.
COMEAP statement on the evidence for differential health effects of particulate matter according to source or components.
Action the government is taking to reduce the impact of nutrient pollution on protected sites and enable sustainable development.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
An investigation into any potential correlation between common air pollutants and COVID-19 related mortality.
This paper studies the role of pollution as a tax on worker effort in an Indian garment factory in Bangalore
This rapid literature review explores the interactions between climate change and air pollution, with a focus on human health impacts
A report by the Committee on the Medical Effects of Air Pollutants (COMEAP) on the long-term effects of particulate air pollution on mortality.
This study covers Karhera, a former agricultural village situated between New Delhi and Ghaziabad (an industrial district in Uttar Pradesh)
Guidance to help health and care staff to work with patients, families and communities to take action on the health effects of air pollution.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
This study examines the role that pollution has played in environmental degradation and the consequences of such degradation
The National Air Pollution Control Programme (NAPCP) sets out measures and analysis for how emission reduction commitments can be met across the UK.
First published during the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government
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