Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

• Reports that No10. wants to review the biodiversity net gain policy in favour of growth. 
• The latest warnings from engineers on how AI may negatively impact our natural environment.
• Plus updates on a new nature-based market; the water companies price review period and Walleys Quarry landfill.

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

1. The long awaited Land Use Framework 
2. Why the Heathrow expansion could ‘fly in the face’ of the country’s climate targets
3. And Steve Reed’s update on his environmental improvement plan review

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

• Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s declaration of war on ‘green zealots’ and the government’s latest set of planning rule changes.
• DEFRA’s rejection of toxic pesticide Cruiser SB in a win for bees, but not British sugar. 
• And what you need to know about a climate and nature bill push that has been shelved, a newly announced expert panel for the Water review, and disco scallops. 

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

• The climate and environment-related actions taken by Donald Trump in his first hours as US president
• The UK chancellor Rachel Reeves’ order to environmental regulators to “tear down” regulatory barriers
• And what you need to know about the “non-legal” biodiversity net gain metric currently in circulation, how the OEP has rated the government’s progress on reaching its environmental targets, and what new US guidance on the chemicals within sewage sludge might mean for the UK. 

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

• The landfill laggards sending more than half their black bin waste to landfill 
• How the company at the centre of an ENDS investigation, which exposed the most PFAS-polluted town in the UK, ‘ignored advice’ on forever chemical pollution
• And what you need to know about the lynx set loose in Scotland, how the environment secretary’s new year’s encounter with farmers went, and the landmark water pollution case taking place this week that you need on your radar

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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments in environmental policy.

This week, ENDS journalists discuss:

• Sir Keir Starmer’s Christmas message for regulators
• The green gongs handed out in the New Year’s Honours list – including some you may not expect
• And what you need to know about why Southern Water has started the new year facing a threat of legal action

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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.

This week, ENDS journalists look back at:

• The biggest environmental crimes and fines of 2024.
• The farmers sticking salmon up their sleeves
• And the politicians who fumbled their environmental policy pledges during the general election.

For this week’s deep-dive, the team discusses what Labour’s arrival has meant for environmental policy in the UK and what might be ahead. 

This episode was recorded on 6 December 2024. 

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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.

This week, ENDS journalists look at:

• Why the language used by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner in the last week in reference to nature protections has prompted a strong backlash from major environmental NGOs. 

• For the news-in-brief: Shell has formed a joint venture with Equinor to ‘extend the life’ of North Sea oil and gas production; Campaigners are disappointed over the housing secretary's green light for M&S’s flagship redevelopment; and the Office for Environmental Protection’s chief executive is “quite astonished by how much environmental law is not complied with”.

For this week's deep-dive, the team explores what the 6,000 abstraction licence breaches recorded in past decade tell us.

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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.

This week, ENDS journalists look at:

• The environmental grant payments suspended by the environment secretary Steve Reed and his plans to set the sector on a new path.

• For the news-in-brief: DEFRA may have broken the law when it comes to giving Cruiser SB the greenlight for farmers; rivers close to sugar beet farms contain the highest levels of neonic pesticides and the failed global treaty to scrap plastics.

For this week’s deep-dive the team discusses the implications of the Environment Agency's decision to issue a closure notice on the notorious Walleys Quarry. 

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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.

This week, ENDS journalists look at:

• Why farmers are still furious with the government and the big agricultural policy changes slipping under the radar in Wales;
• A milestone moment for the beleaguered recycling policy, the deposit return scheme;
• And the news-in-brief: what you need to know about the outcome of the COP29 climate summit; why chancellor Rachel Reeves is talking nature to the Bank of England; and the biodiversity and climate jobs about to lose funding at the Forestry Commission.

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