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Check if you need an environmental permit for a closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Details of access points, events and facilities on the River Wye.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
The Environment Agency’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) of new nuclear power station designs and how we engage with others during the process.
When you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for letting vegetation cuttings fall into rivers, streams, lakes and canals.
Charges for Environment Agency base moorings at locks on the River Thames.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the treatment and disposal of invasive non-native plants and associated soil and materials.
Information for boaters on the Rivers Welland and Glen.
Find out when the Environment Agency classes a motor vehicle as waste and waste controls apply.
Requirements for businesses that operate or service electrical switchgear that contains sulphur hexaflouride (SF6).
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Emerging techniques on how to prevent or minimise the environmental impacts of post-combustion carbon dioxide capture.
How to choose a waste recovery or disposal method and assess its risks when applying for or changing your bespoke environmental permit.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) that are relevant to regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer waste temperature exchange equipment (WTEE).
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from June 2026
Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
Qualification, compliance and notification requirements for ESOS.
Information on harbour approach, moorings, fees and safety information.
Check if you need to pay drainage charges, how much they are and how to pay.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
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