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Get permission or a licence to trap crayfish, eels, elvers, salmon, sea trout, lamprey and smelt in England. How to apply and rules to follow.
Businesses such as joiners, gardeners and farmers can burn their own untreated wood and plant waste on a bonfire, at the place it was produced.
How developers can get advice on Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects (NSIPs) and applications for planning, permission in principle and technical details consent.
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste you have produced when working away from your normal business premises.
A list of all F gases and their global warming potentials.
This guidance explains the appropriate measures that regulated facilities permitted to store, treat or transfer (or both) non-hazardous and inert waste should consider.
S1 waste exemption lets you store certain waste in secure containers at a site separate to where it was produced, before transporting to another site for recovery.
What you need to know about the Environment Agency’s new national risk information for flooding and coastal erosion.
Map showing the geographical areas of the Environment Agency's operations.
How you must control and monitor emissions from your activities that may cause pollution.
How businesses and organisations can avoid causing pollution from oil and chemical storage, car washing, construction and other activities.
What you must do when you keep livestock or manage land.
Find out if and by when you need to apply for a medium combustion plant directive (MCPD) environmental permit to meet air quality requirements.
Get help to improve water and air quality, and reduce flood risk on agricultural land.
How to assess household and non-household packaging from 2024 onwards if you’re a UK organisation affected by extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
How the Environment Agency charges for activities that need an environmental permit and the charges you must pay.
Find the 2022 update to the river basin management plans which describe the challenges that threaten the water environment and how these challenges can be managed.
Explains the definition of ‘regulated facility’ and how they are grouped into classes.
What you need to do before you send waste to a landfill site.
Groundwater flooding, how it might affect you and what to do.
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