{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6177c48df62eb80013741032/66bc97a50ca3a86a26e0797e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The bat police, the EA’s pension pot problem, and Miliband’s solar ‘error’","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6177c48df62eb80013741032/1723635668942-5dfb77f8-ecac-472f-9937-5833f530860f.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>For this week’s big green news, the team finds unravels:</p><p><br></p><ul><li>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.</li><li>Ed Miliband’s push for big solar, which could be about to give him political sun burn.</li><li>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.&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>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.</p>","author_name":"Environmental Data Services (ENDS)"}