Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 25th episode, the team explores:

• The resignation of the Environment Agency’s chief executive, Sir James Bevan
• Why Scotland and Wales are less than happy about Westminster’s plans to bin hundreds of green laws
• The climate COP in Egypt
• The government’s unlawful Net Zero Strategy
• And the EU's plans to tackle the risks from forever chemicals

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 24th episode, the team explores:

• De ja vu at DEFRA
• Why the government hasn't set key green goals
• How permitting delays are driving businesses up the wall
• The Environment Agency's dwindling enforcement action
• The EU's revised chemicals rules 

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• In this 23rd episode, the team explores:
• The latest bout of government infighting over Truss’s deregulatory agenda
• Whether Environment Agency staff will vote to down tools
• The Labour Party’s lacklustre green policies
• Lord Heseltine's views on Truss's red tape bonfire
• The EU’s right to repair policy

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 22nd episode team explores:

• The chaos surrounding DEFRA’s plans for green rules
• How long the Environment Agency has know about illegal sewage dumping 
• The latest on the north east mass crab death mystery
• What's going down at the Tory Party Conference
• Which EU countries are dragging their heels over banning plastic straws and cups 

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In this special podcast version of ENDS's new documentary SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon, we look at some of the pollution problems facing the Severn’s basin, which is home to around 400 rivers, 29 lakes and 33 groundwater bodies, and where, at the Environment Agency’s last assessment, just 45 were found to be in good ecological condition.

Whistleblowers working at the agency have told ENDS that resources have been diverted away from water quality activities, which means they are unable to tackle polluters, such as water companies which discharge raw sewage into rivers and farmers, whose runoff can have catastrophic impacts on wildlife.

Watch the full documentary, SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon, here.

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this twentieth episode, the team explores:

* DEFRA's ministerial massacre

* A green King Charles III

* The Environment Agency's handling of over abstraction

* The poisoning of the river Severn

* And how the hydrogen sector could cannibalise the renewable energy market in the EU

Play Jamie's quiz! Who were the most youthful environment secretaries? 

* George Eustice

* Theresa Villiers

* Michael Gove

* Andrea Leadsom

* Liz Truss

* Owen Paterson

* Caroline Spelman

* Hilary Benn

* David Miliband

* Margaret Beckett

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

Along with our interview with Chris Packham, 19th episode also explores:

• Liz Truss's plans to take a torch to green tape
• Her pledges to lift the ban on fracking and exploit North Sea fossil fuels
• Who's rumoured to be in the new Cabinet
• And why England's sewage problem is creating a stink on the continent

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 18th episode team explores:

• The Tory leadership hopefuls' plans to shred green tape
• Why freeports are encroaching on national parks
• Why spider crabs mass gatherings are becoming more frequent
• Post Brexit green rules divergence
• And the EU’s controversial food security plans

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 17th episode, the ENDS team is joined by musician and angler Feargal Sharkey who does not pull punches when laying the blame for the mismanagement of water quality at the doors of the Environment Agency, Ofwat and the water sector. 

The team also explores:

• Why the government has dumped 17 of its 24 nature indicators
• England's headlong plunge into drought conditions
• Why legal protections for beavers are in the pipeline
• And how the EU plans to move beyond GDP to gauge its wealth

To find out more about these topics visit endsreport.com or follow on twitter @TheENDSReport

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Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shares the latest policy gossip, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.

In this 16th episode, the team explores:

• The EA chair-designate's lack of green vision
• Why England's nature target could be unlawful
• An octopus boom in the south-west
• The impact on green policy of Boris Johnson's demise
• And why the EU considers nuclear and gas energy production to be a green investment

To find out more about these topics visit endsreport.com or follow on twitter @TheENDSReport

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