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Environment Agency's regulation of Hinkley Point, about EDF’s appeal, how you can find out about environmental permits and other activities at Hinkley Point.
Flood risk activity exemptions and how to register.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for discharges from an open loop ground source heating and cooling system. Then register this exemption.
D8 exemption allows you to burn plant tissue waste, wood packaging and packing material waste at a port when a Plant Health Notice has been issued, to prevent the spread of plant diseases.
T32 exemption allows you to treat non-hazardous pesticide washings in a biobed or biofilter.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing chemical toilet waste, and other sewage related wastes, without an environmental permit.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for landspreading of sewage sludge and deployment form.
View the permit issued for Net Zero Teesside Power Station and Carbon Capture Plant, Redcar under the Industrial Emissions Directive.
What to do during the aftercare phase and what to include in an application to surrender your permit.
View the application submitted by Sizewell C Limited to vary permit EPR/TB3643MX to include an activity of ground raising within the floodplain.
Guidance for individuals who are registered on the MCERTS personnel competency scheme for manual stack emissions monitoring.
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
Environment Agency regulatory position on waste transfer and consignment notes when business waste is deposited at a take back or collection point.
View the application submitted by Humber Resources Group Limited for Humber Gate Waste Treatment Facility, Grimsby.
Environment Agency regulatory position on producer obligations to assess the recyclability of household packaging supplied between 1 January and 30 June 2025.
How to comply with your environmental permit: technical guidance for managing clinical waste.
U5 exemption allows you to store and use biodiesel produced from waste as fuel in portable generators and motor vehicles.
Standard rules to capture, treat and store biogas from lagoons and tanks.
Standard rules to operate mobile plant for reclamation, restoration or land improvement and deployment form.
Environment Agency regulatory position on storing samples of waste for regulation or investigation other than where the samples are tested or analysed.
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