<P> The Agency is a regulator for the release of air pollutants into the atmosphere from large, complex industrial processes . This will soon include emissions from some large - scale agricultural activities, but air pollutant releases from many agricultural activities will continue to be unregulated . </P> <P> Major sources of air pollution, such as transport, are subject to various measures at the European, national and local level . Local authorities regulate air pollution from smaller industrial processes . The Agency works with local authorities, the Highways Agency and others to implement the UK government's air quality strategy in England as mandated in the Environment Act 1995 . The Environment Agency has an Air Quality Modelling and Assessment Unit (AQMAU) that aims to ensure that air quality assessments for permit applications, enforcement and air pollution incident investigations are consistent, of a high standard and based on sound science . </P> <P> The Agency is the regulatory authority for all waste management activities including the licensing of sites such as landfill, incineration and recycling facilities . It also regulates the movement of hazardous wastes such as fibrous asbestos, infectious clinical wastes and harmful chemicals . The Agency issues Environmental Permits to waste management sites and any individuals or companies found to have caused pollution or have infringed their licence conditions can be prosecuted . In serious cases the Environment Agency has the power to revoke the Environmental Permits issued to sites that contravene the conditions of their permits stopping all waste handling activities . </P> <P> The Agency has a duty to maintain and improve the quality of surface waters and ground - waters and, as part of the duty, it monitors the quality of rivers, lakes, the sea and groundwater on a regular basis . Much of this information is required by law under the provisions of a number of European Directives to be reported both to Parliament and to Europe and to be made public . Some of these duties have been in force through predecessor agencies and as a consequence the Agency maintains some long term data sets which in some cases such as the Harmonised monitoring scheme exceed 30 years of consistent data collection . </P>

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