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  • This study explores the opportunities and challenges of applying the principles in PHE's 'Spatial Planning for Health: an evidence resource'.

  • Background and project information about how the Coal Authority and Environment Agency plan to reduce pollution from historical metal mining in Northumberland.

  • Considers how we can improve the effectiveness of riparian buffer zones to help tackle agricultural pollution.

  • This report aims to provide the citizens of Northern Ireland, and the wider air quality community, with user-friendly information on local air quality monitoring.

  • Findings from vehicle and component testing done during 2018 to check new products on the UK market meet legal obligations.

  • Data on compliance ratings, pollution inventory, pollution incidents, enforcement and waste crime for 2018.

  • The purpose of this publication is to report on the number of carrier bags dispensed each financial year under the carrier bag levy in Northern Ireland.

  • These statistics are an update of those published in the 2019 Northern Ireland Environmental Statistics Report on lake quality.

  • Independent statement by the Department for Transport Science Advisory Council on research and innovation for transport decarbonisation.

  • This publication reports on a range of environmental indicators for Northern Ireland and provides links to government strategies.

  • This report aims to provide the citizens of Northern Ireland, and the wider air quality community, with user-friendly information on local air quality monitoring.

  • The Natural Capital Committee’s advice on taking a natural capital approach to attaining net zero.

  • This project investigated a statistical approach known as clustering to distinguish microseismic events induced by hydraulic fracturing.

  • This project aimed to identify appropriate mathematical methods for analysing environmental data near onshore oil and gas sites.

  • This project reviews computer models that are used by the oil and gas industry to understand how subsurface hydraulic fracturing will progress.

  • This project reviewed data on how well waste industrial gases are broken down by burning in flares.

  • A study looking at the potential impact on groundwater quality from abandoned oil and gas wells.

  • This project examined how subsurface activities for unconventional and conventional oil and gas exploration might have an impact on groundwater.

  • Exercise to test the national contingency plan for responses to marine pollution from shipping and offshore installations, including the NORBRIT agreement.

  • Report examining the likelihood of meeting the World Health Organization’s (WHO) guideline levels for air pollution (PM2.5) in the UK by 2030.