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.

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

• The green politics influencing voters and what it could mean heading into an election.
• A highly protected SSSI bulldozed with Natural England’s blessing
• And for the news-in-brief, we find out more about the landowner lobby chief appointed to Natural England’s board, new data confirming that UK bathing waters now rank amongst the worst in Europe for pollution and a beaver boom kicking off in east Kent.

For our deep dive, we speak to evolutionary biologist and molecular ecologist, Professor Richard Buggs from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew about all things trees, the scourge of ash dieback disease, scientists of colour and how his Christian faith helps his science.

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Paul Whitehouse, Feargal Sharkey, The Crown’s Jim Murray... This week's episode, recorded from the UK River Summit, features the rockstars of the water world and an environmental lawyer on a mission. Listen to the ECO Chamber to find out what you've missed.

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 bugs bothering England’s bathing waters;
• The crypto outbreak plaguing Devon residents;
• And the United Utilities scandal haunting Windermere – England’s largest and very dirty lake.

For this week's episode we report from the River Summit at Morden Hall where we hear thoughts from big fish such as Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray, Guy Shrubsole and the Environment Agency's Philip Duffy.

For our deep-dive, we speak with Fish Legal's Angela Henry about their landmark legal victory against the government and how the process of informing public bodies actually works.

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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 on-going beef between the government and the post-Brexit environmental watchdog – the Office for Environmental Protection and this time it's over the state of our waterways.
• We find out if the move to drop two green infringement cases against the UK means the EU has finally bowed out from pursuing legal challenges over the channel.
• And knotweed, the seven deadly bins and the new designated bathing water sites, we’ll bring you the news-in-brief.

For our deep-dive, we take a forensic look at how the UK's green policy is diverging not just from the EU but also within the devolved nations.

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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 green policies at risk of being lost before the next general election and what a future Labour government might mean for green policy.
• PLUS the EA’s concerted attempts to thwart FOIs, the tree-climbing lawyer and friends who won a fight against the chainsaws and a failed case over the pollution of the River Wye, which actually may help in the long run. We'll bring you the news in brief.

For this episode’s deep dive, we discuss the findings of a groundbreaking PFAS investigation about a small town in North Yorkshire that has become the most PFAS polluted place 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.

This week, ENDS journalists look at:

• An exclusive on how the landfill treatment process is inadvertently creating a toxic liquid waste that could cause even bigger problems for a PFAS-filled future.
• The new ministers of the Conservative shadow government with ties to British Sugar and working wellies.
• And the news-in-brief: DEFRA’s farm water pollution rules are back in the spotlight, biodiversity net gain is about to get a lot bigger and a new bill to ban the sale of peat has been dug up in the halls of Westminster.

For this week’s fact check, we get to the bottom of HS2’s multi-million pound ‘bat shed’: is it good value for money or a 'batty' white elephant?

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