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Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
The types of permit available, how much they cost and how to apply for your environmental permit.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
How to submit an appropriate environmental permit application for a landfill site, and how to carry out your activities to comply with your permit.
What you need to do when you start planning your landfill site.
Standard rules for repairing and protecting up to 20 metres of main river bank using natural materials.
Information on peak river flow allowances for flood risk assessments, and flood and coastal risk projects, schemes and strategies.
The mechanisms, programmes and strategic initiatives for protecting and improving the water environment in each river basin district.
What you must do to carry out a risk assessment if you're a farmer applying for a bespoke permit for intensive farming.
Identify, describe, classify, and manage waste lead acid batteries containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Where you can build a pet cemetery, the animals you can bury there, how it must be built and how to register.
Advice on indicative standards of operation and environmental performance for industrial sectors.
Use this code to help you follow the rules when you produce or use sewage sludge in agriculture.
How the Environment Agency sets and assesses discharge quality numeric limits in environmental permits.
These are the appropriate measures for the environmental management of a regulated facility with an environmental permit for treating or transferring chemical waste.
The purpose of Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100) and the challenges it aims to address.
This guidance explains the standards (appropriate measures) for facilities with an environmental permit to mechanically treat metal waste in shredders.
How to trial new operating models and technologies at regulated facilities.
Find out when to prepare a water cycle study for your proposed development plan document, or development, and what to focus on.
Information on harbour approach, moorings, fees and safety information.
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