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Find out what you must include in an air dispersion modelling report to get an environmental permit.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for mobile crushing and screening.
To help both holders and potential holders of environmental permits understand how to comply with their permits.
How UK environment agencies assess noise, legal requirements for managing noise, noise impact assessments and noise management plans. This replaces H3 guidance.
Grants to restore and improve rivers, streams, canals, lakes, ponds, wetlands or estuarine waters.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
This manual is a guide for industry sector associations and operators of a climate change agreement (CCA).
How to carry out a groundwater risk assessment for human or animal burials.
Guidance explaining the use of soil guideline values (SGV) to asses the long-term exposure of chemicals in soil on human health.
Handbook and software to help assess the risks of contaminated land exposure for human health.
Rules for coal merchants and retailers selling traditional house coal for use in domestic appliances in England.
Find out how the Environment Agency defines groundwater source protection zones.
Restrictions on burning crop residues, and the rules you must follow when you burn to protect the environment and avoid causing nuisance.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of industrial hydrogen production from methane or refinery fuel gas with carbon capture for storage.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
How to query UK data on waste transfers and emissions, by specific substance, area, river basin, industry or economic sector.
How to report marine pollution incidents, the response to an incident and how to get approval to use an oil spill treatment product.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Formerly part of M18, technical guidance for industrial plant operators (and their contractors) who monitor effluent discharges to water and sewer.
What enforcement action you can take if domestic solid fuels for sale in England do not meet the legal requirements.
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