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How to become certified to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks – the experience and training you need and the exams you must take.
Guidance to help health and care staff to work with patients, families and communities to take action on the health effects of air pollution.
Details of the standing environment groups in the UK.
How councils can control leafleting which is causing a litter problem, the places and leaflets that are exempt and the fees they can charge.
These are the maximum uncertainty values to assess whether periodic measurement results comply with emission limit values in environmental permits (formerly part of M2).
This provides guidance on minimising annoyance or disturbance caused by the sport of flying model aircraft.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can collect, store and upgrade biogas from on-farm manure and slurry lagoons without an environmental permit.
Environment Agency regulatory position on emergency services and armed forces using end of life vehicles (ELVs) and other wastes for training.
Document explaining the relationship between the Environmental Permitting Regulations and local authorities’ statutory nuisance duties.
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for electrical furnaces.
This treaty was presented to Parliament in November 2021.
Guide for local authorities determining levels of risk for activities regulated under the LAPPC regime.
This policy guidance is for LAs in England carrying out their local air quality management duties under Part IV of the Environment Act 1995.
This monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) guidance describes the certification process for low risk plant monitors.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can store and dewater sludge produced by treating water pollution from abandoned coal mines.
Guidance and forms on the TNP trading scheme for regulatory authority staff and operators of large combustion plants.
This document is published by Defra in support of its three-year Gershon Efficiency Review initiative to improve standards of street cleansing and related services.
Regulators must use this process guidance note (PGN) to assess applications and write permits for bitumen processes.
Information for professionals involved in reducing health harms associated with air pollution.
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