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This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
Types of waste and maximum amounts you can use for spreading as mulch to benefit land around trees, bushes or plants, under U12 waste exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on the temporary storage and controlled depressurising of nominally empty discarded nitrous oxide canisters.
Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
This document is aimed at people who design or assess proposals which include a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL) for environmental protection.
How the Environment Agency meets the Regulators’ Code.
Standards for the flood risk management industry on how to build and review open coast models and provide evidence for coastal risk management decisions.
Guidance on applying adjustments for frequently flooded properties
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can operate an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant without a waste operation or waste installation environmental permit.
Appropriate measures for waste treatment.
You must have a licence to import or export ozone-depleting substances (ODS) to and from Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).
How to apply for an accommodation licence for a structure on the River Thames, the licensing requirements, and licence fees.
Fire and rescue services in England can use this service to report the use of environmental protection equipment at an incident to the Environment Agency.
Spreading slurry and milk on agricultural land: Environment Agency advice in exceptional circumstances such as extreme weather.
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 can get permission to catch eel or elver by trap or net in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
Find your local policy unit for Thames Estuary 2100 (TE2100), listed by the councils responsible for that area.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
The Environment Agency's requirements for obtaining a boat registration on the River Thames.
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