Eco Chamber

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

For this week’s big green news, the team finds out about the Walsall chemical spill and the thousands of litres of toxic waste that’s leaked into the town’s canal.

• We also learn about the golf courses in the firing line for over abstraction during the hottest year on record.
• And the news-in-brief: Labour drops legal action against a sign-wielding climate activist, provisional fees for extended producer responsibility have at long last been published by the government, and the Net Zero Teesside legal action has been thrown out by the courts, why?

For this week’s deep-dive, the ECO Chamber speaks to Ben Reynolds, the executive director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy UK about policy divergences and chemicals between the UK and the EU.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

For this week’s big green news, the team finds unravels:

• How the pension fund used by wildlife regulators Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales holds bonds worth millions in the water companies they are tasked with regulating.
• Ed Miliband’s push for big solar, which could be about to give him political sun burn.
• And the news-in-brief, we find out about Natural England's budget drop, the millions agreed in recent enforcement undertakings and find out more about the UK’s biggest emitter of CO2 -- Drax. 

For our first fast ever rapid fire factcheck, we take a look at the wildlife protections afforded to the world’s only flying mammal and work out if the so-called bat police are becoming too over zealous in their work.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

For this week’s big green news, the team finds out:

• The significance of the thousands of PFAS-related legal cases taking place in the US and the UK’s most PFAS polluted town?
• Labour’s planning review… what will it mean for the natural environment? 
• And for the news-in-brief, we discuss Scotland’s beaver translocation boom, the latest apology from Walleys Quarry, and the looming budget cuts for Natural Resources Wales.

For our deep-dive, we speak with ENDS Report's features editor Tess Colley to find out if Scotland's environmental record on green issues is as good as the headlines or is the government about to get a red card? With municipal waste collectors about to go on strike across Scotland this summer, will it be the rats having an easy time of it or can the Scottish National Party bring calm?

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

For this week’s Big Green News, the team finds out:

• Why the toxic neonicotinoid Cruiser SB pesticide was authorised by the Conservative government without any kind of environmental assessment carried out for wildlife in protected areas. 
• Which culprits are responsible for over-abstracting in England during the hottest year on record... and in an ironic twist the Environment Agency made the naughty list.
• And Rachel Reeve's infrastructure stampout, the invasive eight-toothed spruce bark beetle in the south, and £2.4bn shortfall that UK farming needs to avert a nature crisis

For our deep-dive we speak with ENDS Europes’ deputy editor Simon Pickstone to find out what the Swiss can teach us about how we can one day swim in the rivers and lakes that run through the heart of our cities… 

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

For this week’s Big Green News, the team discusses:

• The implications of the King's Speech for the climate and the UK's natural environment
• Why the housing secretary wants to change the process of environmental assessments.
• And Mary Creagh, Lough Neagh's restoration plan and Wild Justice in Dartmoor, we'll give you the news-in-brief.

For our deep-dive we speak with the chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts Craig Bennett on Labour's direction of green policy, the relationships with NGOs, how the Trusts' wildbelt works with Labour's greybelt, the restoration of the Celtic rainforests and how to avoid falling into corporate traps.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the politics of solar power – more than a gigawatt of solar energy has been approved by the energy minister Ed Milliband but how, where and why? 

And Ofwat’s draft price determinations show water bills will go up. Will the additional rates improve our natural environment? 

For the news-in-brief the team discusses:

• The asbestor waste dumper of Devon 
• Ofwat's national sewage investigation
• And Green Electricity Wales. 

For this week's deep-dive, the team explores the big cities of England and where you will find the greenest urban places in the country.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this week’s episode, we look back and forwards at the politics of now: the slayed beasts of the Conservatives, the triumphant hunters of the labour party and the jolly Lib Dems who were laughing all the way to the polls. But who’s in charge now and what are Labour’s priorities? We’ll be working through all the political news of the past seven days.

And for our deep dive, we’ll be exploring the government's latest push into the realms of planning reform as they get to building the change they promised.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In THIS week’s episode, we focus on:

• The oysters in the south coast of England, which have been swallowing tiny pieces of boats made of fibreglass.
• The wild boars poisoned with PFAS pollution
• PLUS for our news-in-brief we’ll find out about Europe’s first tax on cows, the UK’s missing forest the size of Birmingham, and the outrageous levels of e.coli floating alongside the Henley Royal Regatta.

For our deep dive, we’ll be running through the policies, pledges and promises made by both the Conservative and Labour parties in the run up to the big vote.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

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For this week’s Big Green News, the team discusses:

• The Supreme Court ruling for a Surrey oil drill site that could fundamentally change the landscape for all new fossil fuel projects in the future.
• We’ll also bring you the news-in-brief looking at the latest political twists for our natural environment and the march of the 60,000.

For our deep dive, we’ll be exploring the uncomfortable alliances of NGOs taking money from polluting businesses after it was revealed that the WWF’s ties to TESCO could have prevented a nasty report from being published… a report that could have negatively impacted the supermarket’s reputation.

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It’s taken nearly four decades for a global phase out of leaded petrol, light aircraft still use fuel containing lead to keep flying their planes. The US and the EU are looking to phase out this source of harmful lead pollution, but the UK is hanging back.

Aviation fuel AVGAS 100LL uses Tetraethlylead for fuel stability. When this lead is jettisoned from the engine at takeoff, these poisonous compounds are released into the air and soil – impacting the environment, and potentially exposing people in the surrounding area.

The World Health Organization estimates that more than 2 million deaths globally were attributed to chemical exposures in 2019, with lead exposure attributed to nearly half of these deaths. Children are particularly vulnerable to lead, which can cause “profound and permanent” adverse health impacts according to the WHO.

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