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.

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 infamous Walleys Quarry landfill that has entered liquidation.The beavers about to be legally released into the wild for first time since their extinction in Britain. Plus, COP16 ends with agreement to raise funds for nature recovery, the NFU (National Farmers Union) calls for ‘food impact assessments’ on all planning applications, and the key take-homes from the latest report on agriculture and land use by the government’s climate change advisers.

A toxic scandal runs through a small town in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? In the second part of God’s Own Dark Waters, the team turn the lens on those who were supposed to be protecting Bentham – and find out what’s happened to those living in the shadow of the Angus Fire factory.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. Last year, an ENDS Report 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. In the second episode of this two-part podcast special, she joins the ECO Chamber podcast’s regular presenter James Agyepong-Parsons to turn the lens on those who were supposed to be protecting Bentham – and find out what’s happened to those living in the shadow of the Angus Fire factory.Listen now to hear from:Bentham residents who say they feel ‘trapped’ after finding out communal gardens nearby the factory are contaminated with PFASLawyers at the law firms Leigh Day and Mischon de Reya, who are acting on behalf of residents in Bentham to explore potential legal action against Angus FireCampaigner George Monbiot who says that the government is failing to effectively regulate 'forever chemicals'Read more ENDS Report PFAS investigations:God's own Dark Waters? How Bentham became the most PFAS polluted place in the UK Poisoned Pastures: Exposing the chemical russian roulette being played on English farmlandChemicals in the Cotswolds: Would you build a primary in the toxic hotspot? ENDS briefing: The PFAS filesGod’s Own Dark Waters: Exposing a chemical scandal is an ENDS Report productionSeries Producer-- Jamie Carpenter Series Producer -- Tess ColleyProducer, Presenter and Researcher -- Pippa NeillProducer, Presenter and Editor - James Agyepong-ParsonsArtwork -- David RobinsonStudio engineer -- Til Owen

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. Listen now to hear from:A fire brigade whistleblower who says that concerns about PFAS firefighting foams were shut down by senior management, and discusses their fears about why so many of their colleagues have died of cancer.Bentham residents who say they feel ‘trapped’ after finding out communal gardens nearby the factory are contaminated with PFAS.Lawyers at the law firms Leigh Day and Mischon de Reya, who are acting on behalf of residents in Bentham to explore potential legal action against Angus Fire.The Fire Brigades Union, which discusses how it is carrying out blood testing of union members to test for PFAS. READ MORE:God's own Dark Waters? How Bentham became the most PFAS polluted place in the UK ENDS briefing: The PFAS filesMAPPED: The UK sites where PFAS has been detectedGod’s Own Dark Waters: Exposing a chemical scandal is an ENDS Report productionSeries Producer-- Jamie Carpenter Series Producer -- Tess ColleyProducer, Presenter and Researcher -- Pippa NeillProducer, Presenter and Editor - James Agyepong-ParsonsArtwork -- David RobinsonStudio engineer -- Til Owen