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How the maritime industry should treat waste at sea and in ports, reduce oil and air pollution, and control ozone-depleting substances.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
What you must do to manage manure, fertiliser and soil to prevent runoff, erosion and leaching.
Paper and cardboard production can cause significant pollution. This guide describes industry responsibilities for preventing pollution.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
This environmental resource guide seeks to support the rollout of digital infrastructure in England, by providing greater awareness of climate adaptation, environmental improvements (biodiversity gains), and low carbon considerations. The guide is based on England jurisdiction, but has direct relevance...
Explains key issues in implementing policy to protect and enhance the natural environment, including local requirements.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
Climate change is happening and is due to human activities; along with warming, many other changes are occurring such as melting polar ice, rising sea levels and more frequent floods, droughts and heatwaves.
Explains requirements of the Town and Country Planning (Environmental Impact Assessment) Regulations 2017.
How to clean and disinfect after an animal disease outbreak and store and dispose of the washwater.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of hydrogen production by electrolysis of water.
When you need an environmental permit, licence or to address planning considerations to mitigate nutrient pollution.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
Under the duty set out in the Environment Act 2021, ministers and policy makers must consider the environmental impact of new policies.
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