Eco Chamber

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 government's intervention over the running of British Steel in Scunthorpe and its net zero future.The return of former environment secretaries - like Micheal Gove - who have ascended to the House of Lords.Plus, ‘agile’ environmental permitting, ‘local species extinction’ via the Planning Bill, and Westminster's PFAS probe. 

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 implications of US president Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs and the knock-on impacts on net zero policies in the UK.How the environment sector has responded to the Environment Agency chair Alan Lovell announcing he is stepping down - while Natural England’s chair Tony Juniper steps up for a third term.Plus, a landmark legal ruling on rivers; Natural England’s new five-year plan, and DEFRA quangos face existential threat.

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 Corry review and the burning consequences for nature and environmental policy. How experts are warning that the government’s Planning and Infrastructure Bill may breach international environmental law. Plus, Alan Lovell's departure as Environment Agency (EA) chair, the government’s £150m ‘employee exit schemes’, and the EA’s dirty waste tyre exports-problem.

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:An exclusive on how toxic chemicals from road run-off are spilling within striking distance of protected sitesWhat the environment secretary has told MPs about the future cuts needed for the DEFRA Group to remain in budgetPlus, we learn more about the government's new National Action Plan on pesticides, the OEP's reaction to the environmental implications of the new Planning and Infrastructure Bill, and Tony Juniper’s reappointment as chair of Natural England.

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 Treasury’s action plan to cut the administrative burden of red tape and what it means for environmental regulationSir Keir Starmer’s attack on the “watchdog state” where “distinguished jumping spiders” are holding back the development of whole new townsPlus, we explore how excess phosphates have stung development within a Welsh special area of conservation (SAC), discuss the government’s new reforms to the bathing water regulations, and look at the start of work to clean up plastic nurdles following the collision of two ships last week in the North Sea.WATCH NOW > LEGACY: How the Environment Act was made – and what its architects think of it now, which is free for a limited time only.

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:An exclusive on why the Environment Agency (EA) is struggling to recruit staff to regulate England’s most hazardous sites.The big announcements laid bare in the government’s new Planning and Infrastructure Bill, including its new nature levy.Plus, how Walleys Quarry owes the EA £600,000, the government's big plans for the North Sea transition away from fossil fuels, and the North Sea tanker collision.