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A summary of the main methods you should use to monitor for particulate matter in ambient air.
How to query UK data on waste transfers and emissions, by specific substance, area, river basin, industry or economic sector.
The document provides generic guidelines for the assessment and management of environmental risks.
Guidance on methods of minimising annoyance or disturbance caused by the operation of loudspeakers fixed to ice-cream vans and similar vehicles.
How to report releases and transfers from industrial activities that the Environment Agency regulates.
Meeting the standard for stack emissions monitoring sample locations – requirements for measurement sections and sites. This guidance was formerly called M1.
The water industry is producing strategic drainage and wastewater plans to maintain, improve, and extend robust and resilient drainage and wastewater systems.
BAT for diesel engines on an installation that are classed as new medium combustion plant, operating up to 500 hours a year that are exempt from emission limit values (ELVs).
How to avoid causing groundwater pollution when developing cemeteries for burying human remains.
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.
How to develop monitoring strategies for assessing levels of pollutants in the ambient atmosphere.
A summary of the techniques and standards you should use to monitor ambient air.
How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
MCERTS standard specifying the minimum requirements for installing and using event duration monitors (EDMs) required by an environmental permit.
A strategic overview for responses to marine pollution from shipping and offshore installations
How to meet the requirements of using mobile plant for landspreading waste to provide agricultural benefit or ecological improvement.
This index will help you choose an appropriate periodic monitoring technique and standard for monitoring stack emissions to air (formerly part of M2).
Local authority permits for Part B installations and mobile plant and solvent emission activities, under Environmental Permitting Regulations.
A resource focusing on air pollution: sources, impacts and actions.
This MID explains how to use 'BS 4142 Method for rating and assessing industrial and commercial sound' when monitoring sound for an environmental permit.
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