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What your business must do to prevent air pollution - local emissions controls, Air Quality Management Areas (AQMAs), eliminating dark smoke, permits for boilers
Substances that are classed as persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and when you're allowed to use them.
This guide explains how impacts on noise should be incorporated into a cost benefit analysis.
COMEAP advice note on the health evidence relevant to developing targets for fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) under the Environment Act (2021).
Guidance to help health and care staff to work with patients, families and communities to take action on the health effects of air pollution.
The pollution inventory provides information about releases and transfers of substances from regulated industrial activities.
How to manage water use, levels, drainage and irrigation, and avoid pollution from waste water and sheep dip.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
Deputy Ambassador Deirdre Brown calls for the OSCE to continue monitoring the environmental impact of Russia's war.
How to carry out a risk assessment if you are applying for a bespoke permit that includes discharging hazardous chemicals and elements to surface water.
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
This study examines the role that pollution has played in environmental degradation and the consequences of such degradation
Air pollution is a global environmental health threat, contributing to an estimated 3-7 million deaths per year
Barclay: Unlimited financial penalties for environmental offences will mean ‘polluters always pay’.
How to report marine pollution incidents, the response to an incident and how to get approval to use an oil spill treatment product.
Regulations and guidance on fees and charging for environmental and other regulatory functions for offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities.
Provides guidance on how planning can take account of the impact of new development on air quality.
Follow this groundwater protection code of practice to prevent pollution from solvent use and storage.
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