A toxic scandal runs through a small town in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? ENDS Report investigates.
For more than a year, award winning ENDS Report journalist Pippa Neill has been unearthing the toxic truth of how a small Yorkshire market town and its residents found themselves at the centre of a chemical scandal.
In the first episode of this two-part podcast special, she joins the ECO Chamber podcast’s regular presenter James Agyepong-Parsons to tell the full story of how Bentham’s PFAS pollution problem came to light – and what happened next.
Last year, Pippa’s groundbreaking investigation exposed how the market town of Bentham in North Yorkshire is the most known PFAS-polluted place in the UK. The main employer in the town – a firefighting foam producer called Angus Fire – sits at the heart of the pollution.
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God’s Own Dark Waters: Exposing a chemical scandal is an ENDS Report production
Series Producer-- Jamie Carpenter
Series Producer -- Tess Colley
Producer, Presenter and Researcher -- Pippa Neill
Producer, Presenter and Editor - James Agyepong-Parsons
Artwork -- David Robinson
Studio engineer -- Til Owen
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