Eco Chamber

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...

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...

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 environment secretary's plans to rewire DEFRA's policy mainframe.   And the accounting trick that saw ammonia reductions reached as emissions continue to rise.  Plus upda...

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: Reports that No10. wants to review the biodiversity net gain policy in favour of growth.  The latest warnings from engineers on how AI may negatively impact our natural environment. Pl...

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 long awaited Land Use Framework  Why the Heathrow expansion could ‘fly in the face’ of the country’s climate targets And Steve Reed’s update on his environmental improvement plan r...

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: Prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s declaration of war on ‘green zealots’ and the government’s latest set of planning rule changes. DEFRA’s rejection of toxic pesticide Cruiser SB in a win fo...

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 climate and environment-related actions taken by Donald Trump in his first hours as US president The UK chancellor Rachel Reeves’ order to environmental regulators to “tear down” regula...

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 landfill laggards sending more than half their black bin waste to landfill  How the company at the centre of an ENDS investigation, which exposed the most PFAS-polluted town in the...

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: Sir Keir Starmer’s Christmas message for regulators The green gongs handed out in the New Year’s Honours list – including some you may not expect And what you need to know about why Souther...

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 back at: The biggest environmental crimes and fines of 2024. The farmers sticking salmon up their sleeves And the politicians who fumbled their environmental policy pledges during t...

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: Why the language used by prime minister Sir Keir Starmer and his deputy Angela Rayner in the last week in reference to nature protections has prompted a strong backlash from maj...

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: The environmental grant payments suspended by the environment secretary Steve Reed and his plans to set the sector on a new path. For the news-in-brief: DEFRA may have broken th...

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: Why farmers are still furious with the government and the big agricultural policy changes slipping under the radar in Wales; A milestone moment for the beleaguered recycling pol...

According to some estimates, the environment sector is among the least diverse profession in the UK, second only to agriculture.  The latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that in the 12 months to June 2024, 93% of environmental professionals were white, and 7% identified as Black, Asian or belonging to an ethnic minority group.  Surveys have also found evidenc...

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: How residents in the UK’s most known PFAS-polluted place are working with lawyers to investigate a first of its kind legal claim Why the Office for Environmental Protection beli...

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 ministe...

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: The environmental implications of Labour’s first budget in over a decade-and-a-half and what it means for DEFRA. And the news-in-brief: The mother of the first person in the wor...

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: The new waste group 'PRO' in charge of the government’s forthcoming extended producer responsibility roll-out. The big emission cuts that the government is toying as part of its...

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: The ground-breaking community-led lawsuit attempting to hold a water company to account for the sewage pollution its let slip. Labour’s growth strategy and the ramifications for...

What were the regulation-slashing announcements in Sir Keir Starmer's speech, and do they signal a war on nature? Who is the 'nature voice' in the government’s new clean power unit? And are dams and reservoirs for hydro projects among the “least intrusive” of renewable energy technologies? Find out in this week's episode of the ECO Chamber... Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to dis...

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. In this week’s episode, the team unearths: The gardens of England where food grows with toxic PFAS pollution. The environment secretary's plan for growth, growth, growth at DEFRA. And the news-in-brief: Missed biod...

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. In this week’s episode, the team explores: The Office for Environmental Protection's landmark legal action on how the government implements its statutory requirements to restore and improve the environmental condit...

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. In this week’s episode, the team explores: The Labour Party conference and the takehomes, takeovers and takedowns that took place during its Liverpool event. And for the news-in-brief section the team learns more a...

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. In this week’s episode, the team explores: PFAS. How much is it going to cost and how long have our agency’s known about its dangers? And planning for the UK’s first new deep sea coal mine in decades has been quash...

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. In this week’s episode, the team explores: The implications of Labour's new water bill, which includes the threat of criminal action against water company executives who don't clean up their act. Why conservat...