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Find out the compliance limits for waste water treatment works (WWTW), and how to treat and monitor discharges to meet permit conditions.
The Environment Agency has issued this guideline to water undertakers that are wholly or mainly in England.
You must manage your operations to prevent or minimise pollution from the activities authorised by your permit.
What you need to monitor and how to report your performance to meet your permit conditions.
A summary of the techniques and standards you should use to monitor ambient air.
What you must comply with when decommissioning boreholes at oil and gas sites.
Check if an item of upholstered domestic seating is a waste or non-waste item and, if it is waste, identify if it contains persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
How the Environment Agency regulates discharges and radioactive waste disposals from Sellafield through environmental permitting.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Severn river basin district river basin management plan.
Environment Agency's regulation of Sizewell A, B and C and how you can find out more about environmental permits and other activities at these nuclear sites.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the Thames river basin district river basin management plan.
This guidance should be read before making any application to register a boat on Environment Agency waterways.
Updated guidance for risk management authorities (RMAs) and project teams on how to use the PF calculator 2020 when developing FCERM projects.
Use this template to write a declaration of conformity to certify that HFCs (F gas) in equipment you import or manufacture are covered by a HFC quota.
What documents you need to register for the UK Emissions Trading Registry.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can store and treat waste fire extinguishers before metal recovery.
View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits for July 2025
End of waste criteria for the production and use of quality outputs from anaerobic digestion of source-segregated biodegradable waste.
Environment Agency enforcement position on shredding waste upholstered domestic seating (WUDS) containing persistent organic pollutants (POPs).
Standard rules to operate a vehicle storage depollution and dismantling authorised treatment facility.
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