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View the final permit decisions that the Environment Agency has made on applications for environmental permits from January 2026
How to monitor emissions from low risk medium combustion plants (MCPs) and specified generators (SGs).
Find out if Medium Combustion Plant Directive (MCPD) or specified generator regulations apply to your operations.
How to get extra support for projects in England that require a complex range of environmental permits and licences.
T8 exemption allows you to treat small amounts of waste end-of-life tyres for recovery by baling, shredding, peeling, shaving or granulating.
How to get support for nature projects that require a range of environmental permits and licences.
Standard rules SR2015 No 14: 75kte metal recycling site.
Check if you're exempt from needing an environmental permit for a new closed loop ground source heating and cooling system.
The monitoring certification scheme (MCERTS) standard that applies to holders of environmental permits who must monitor liquid flow (sewage or trade effluent).
How to demonstrate 'decarbonisation readiness' for new or substantially refurbished electricity generating combustion plants when applying for an environmental permit.
Standard rules to use waste in a deposit for recovery operations (construction, reclamation, restoration or improvement of land other than by mobile plant).
Nuclear site radioactive substances regulation (RSR), when you need a permit, how to apply, how to change (vary), transfer or surrender your permit
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.
The conditions that new cemetery developments, or new extensions of a cemetery, can operate under without needing an environmental permit.
This guidance specifies the standards for the continuous monitoring and sampling of stack emissions.
The emission limit values (ELVs) and air quality standards specified generators must meet, including the deadlines for complying.
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).
The Environment Agency has provided these low risk waste positions (LRWPs) for waste operations that it considers may be suitable for an exemption.
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.
S3 waste exemption lets you store sewage sludge at a site where it will be used in accordance with the Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations 1989.
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