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Advises on enhancing and conserving the historic environment.
How to report incidents, including pro-formas for PON1 and PON2 and guidance on completion; listing of environmental alerts for operators in the North Sea.
Barclay: Unlimited financial penalties for environmental offences will mean ‘polluters always pay’.
Under the duty set out in the Environment Act 2021, ministers and policy makers must consider the environmental impact of new policies.
Check if you need to do a risk assessment, how to do a risk assessment, and how the Environment Agency can help you.
Who's responsible for cleaning up contaminated land and how you know if your business is on a contaminated site
Environmental regulations and guidance on offshore oil and gas exploration and production, offshore gas unloading and storage and offshore carbon dioxide storage activities
Plan for climate change impacts to and from your site. How to integrate climate change adaptation into your management system under an environmental permit.
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...
Guidance for policy officials in government to identify and assess the wider environmental impacts of their policy options.
Guidance primarily aimed at local responders covering environmental issues that may arise during the Recovery Phase of an emergency in the UK
Provides guiding principles on how planning can deal with land affected by contamination.
New laws will scrap the cap on civil penalties and significantly broaden their scope to target a much wider range of environmental offences
How to identify and classify waste that contains POPs.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
This report (HPA-CHaPD-001) is a review of environmental chemicals and neurotoxicity focusing on neurological diseases.
Advises on how to consider light within the planning system.
How to deal with waste, including hazardous waste, and prevent pollution.
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