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Essential Environment Online is now produced and managed by Environmental Protection UK effective from 1 January 2022. Formerly produced and managed by International Labmate for some six years and before them it was in the hands of Environmental Protection UK a national charity and former publishers of Essential Environment (previously the Pollution Control Handbook) and Essential Environment Online. The first guide was published over 30 years ago.
The Essential Environment website is regularly updated to reflect developments of relevance to environmental protection and pollution control pollution legislation in the UK, the Devolved Administrations and in Europe.
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Essential Environment Online is widely used by central and local government, industry, pollution control specialists, consultants, researchers and students. It aims, therefore, to provide an overview of environmental and pollution control legislation and related issues that is accessible to readers with widely varying knowledge and expertise. It does not, however, set out to provide a detailed statement of law and specialist professional advice should always be sought in dealing with specific problems, or before taking legal action. Environmental Protection UK can take no responsibility for any inaccuracies which may have arisen.
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