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Use the climate change risk assessment examples for your industry sector when developing or reviewing your management system.
How to apply for an environmental permit if you rear pigs and poultry intensively, including how to comply with and change the permit.
Find out if your groundwater discharges are extremely low risk so don’t need an environmental permit or exemption.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
This exemption allows you to temporarily store waste at a collection point before recovering or disposing of the waste elsewhere.
How to apply for a standard rules environmental permit from the Environment Agency.
You can use these emission factors to quantify the amount of ammonia emitted from your permitted pig or poultry operations.
Find out about Compliance Assessment Reports, assessments, inspections and permit reviews, and what the Environment Agency will do if you do not follow the rules.
Guidance for regulated facilities with an environmental permit to treat or transfer healthcare waste.
Guidance to help organisations choose a monitoring approach for stack emissions to air that meets Environment Agency and MCERTS requirements (formerly part of M2).
Treating and disposing of non-hazardous farm waste, sending to landfill, burying waste, incinerating fallen stock and recycling waste fuel oil.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
The D3 exemption allows the burial of waste from a portable toilet, to avoid long-distance transportation of small quantities of waste to sewage treatment works.
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
Information you must submit to the Environment Agency in a noise impact assessment that uses computer modelling or spreadsheet calculations.
The U12 exemption allows landscapers, farmers and growers to spread mulch as a protective covering onto land around trees, bushes or plants.
Standard rules to operate a mobile plant for the treatment of soils and contaminated material, substances or products.
The T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
What you need to provide to the Environment Agency if you want them to consider allowing your proposed research or trial.
How to comply with emission limit values (ELVs) for hydrogen combustion plant greater than 1 megawatt thermal input (MWth).
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