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Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.

• Updated: 30 September 2024

Managing radioactive waste with geological disposal

• Updated: 25 January 2018

How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to the ground.

• Updated: 2 October 2023

How to assess the risks to groundwater for treated effluent discharges.

• Updated: 25 November 2020

How to meet the general binding rules if your septic tank or small sewage discharge treatment plant releases (discharges) waste water to a surface water.

• Updated: 2 October 2023

Dstl provides the UK with advanced space science, technology, services and advice to monitor, protect and defend our interests in and through space.

• Updated: 10 February 2025

How to approach sampling ambient air and the sampling and analytical techniques to use.

• Updated: 10 September 2024

Find out where SPZs are, what defines the different zones and why the Environment Agency must protect groundwater from pollution.

• Updated: 1 August 2024

How to apply for authorisation to import, move or keep specified material and the fees you must pay.

• Updated: 1 November 2022

How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.

• Updated: 10 September 2024