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Calculate your net carbon emissions and economic benefits - for risk management authorities and project teams.
How to comply with the conditions in your environmental permit for intensive pig and poultry farming.
View the application submitted by Kimberly-Clark Limited for Barrow Paper Mill, Barrow-in-Furness.
Environment Agency regulatory position on disposing of waste from clearing blocked sewers.
Guidance for fish passes where existing obstructions prevent the safe passage of eel and elver travelling up stream.
What to do if the livestock manure produced on your farm is likely to exceed the amount you're allowed to spread on your land in an NVZ (farm limit).
What happens when the Environment Agency stops maintaining a flood or coastal erosion defence, how to challenge the decision and how to manage your risk afterwards.
How to reduce the risk of becoming ill after swimming in lakes, rivers and estuaries.
Standard rules for unbound incinerator bottom ash aggregate (IBAA) in construction as a deposit for recovery operation.
What river basin management plans are and their benefits. How they are structured and finding the information you need.
Standard rules to operate metal recycling site.
You can report fraud and irregularities against the Environment Agency.
Increase flood resilience with natural flood management.
What you must consider when you assess the appropriate measures for your site.
T13 exemption allows you to recover waste food by decanting or unwrapping it and recovering the packaging.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
How water companies plan for dry weather and drought to make sure they can supply water and protect the environment.
Find out about discharge limits and controls for chemical dosing of treated sewage effluents, and when you need to apply to change your environmental permit.
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