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How to fund the £16.2 billion cost of upgrading flood defences in the Thames Estuary up until 2100.
Assessing appropriate measures for your site, the measures that apply to different types of facilities and implementing measures at new and existing facilities.
About Radioactive Substances Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments and inspections and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
The main mechanisms to protect and improve the water environment in each river basin district.
Find all the documents, data and maps that make up the South East river basin district river basin management plan.
U6 exemption allows you to import sludge from one waste water treatment plant to another to reseed the biological process.
How to calculate the incinerator’s energy efficiency factor so you can apply for and keep R1 recovery status.
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).
This document sets out principles and guidance for the assessment of ionising radiation doses to the public from authorised discharges.
Environment Agency regulatory position on when you can burn waste wood during community events such as Guy Fawkes’ bonfires and Scout and Guide campfires.
View the application submitted by Britannia Refined Metals Limited for Botany Road, Gravesend.
Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can dispose of waste from clearing blocked sewers back into the same sewer network without an environmental permit for a waste operation.
When you do not need an environmental permit for an ‘orphan’ waste effluent treatment plant.
The Environment Agency has received an application from J N Bentley Limited for a licence to abstract (take) water.
How to become certified to monitor pollution released from chimney stacks – the experience and training you need and the exams you must take.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
View the permit issued for Rookery Pit Energy recovery Facility, Stewartby under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
View the application submitted by Mick George Limited for Harlestone Inert Landfill, Northampton.
End of waste criteria for the production of PFA and FBA for use in bound and grout applications in specified construction and manufacturing uses.
Environment Agency regulatory position on notification as a materials facility, when receiving less than 75 tonnes of waste material per supplier.
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