Eco Chamber

Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 33rd episode, the team explores: Why some of our most hazardous sites aren’t being properly regulated The treasury’s budget statement against the backdrop of industrial action A changing of the guard in the Environment Agency as w...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 32nd episode, the team explores: Why DEFRA has axed its plans to merge its environmental watchdogs and change the ways it designates protected land The government’s latest vision for its flagship biodiversity net gain policy...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 31st episode, the team explores: How harmful PM2.5 levels are on the rise due to a proliferation of wood-burners.  Why the government has tweaked its own data on air quality and ammonia emissions.  The good news tha...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 30th episode, the team explores: what's in DEFRA's shiny new environmental improvement plan how the department is going to deal with 1,200 newly-discovered pieces of retained EU law why Environment Agency officers are prepari...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 29th episode, the team explores: why the green watchdog has sunk its teeth into the government's environmental track record the progress of ministers' plans to ignite a bonfire of retained EU laws how a rewilding project in D...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 28th episode, the team explores:    whether DEFRA has really kicked its water quality targets downstream    a grisly court case involving wildlife crime in deepest, darkest Dorset   &nb...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 27the episode, the team explores: - The ongoing attack on green laws - The staffing crisis at the environmental regulators - DEFRA’s unlawful net zero strategy - The EU’s energy reforms - The year’s heroes, villains and bigge...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 26th episode, ENDS interviews the Wildlife Trusts' chief executive about the government's 'attack on nature The team also explores: The odds of success for a new ecology bill The pros and cons of tidal power The Legal ch...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 25th episode, the team explores: The resignation of the Environment Agency’s chief executive, Sir James Bevan Why Scotland and Wales are less than happy about Westminster’s plans to bin hundreds of green laws The climate COP...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 24th episode, the team explores: De ja vu at DEFRA Why the government hasn't set key green goals How permitting delays are driving businesses up the wall The Environment Agency's dwindling enforcement action The EU's rev...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 23rd episode, the team explores: The latest bout of government infighting over Truss’s deregulatory agenda Whether Environment Agency staff will vote to down tools The Labour Party’s lacklustre green policies Lord Heseltine's...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 22nd episode team explores: The chaos surrounding DEFRA’s plans for green rules How long the Environment Agency has know about illegal sewage dumping  The latest on the north east mass crab death mystery What's going dow...

In this special podcast version of ENDS's new documentary SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon, we look at some of the pollution problems facing the Severn’s basin, which is home to around 400 rivers, 29 lakes and 33 groundwater bodies, and where, at the Environment Agency’s last assessment, just 45 were found to be in good ecological condition. Whistleblowers working at the agency have told...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this twentieth episode, the team explores: * DEFRA's ministerial massacre * A green King Charles III * The Environment Agency's handling of over abstraction * The poisoning of th...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. Along with our interview with Chris Packham, 19th episode also explores: Liz Truss's plans to take a torch to green tape Her pledges to lift the ban on fracking and exploit North Sea fossil fuels Who's rumoured to be in the new Cabin...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 18th episode team explores: The Tory leadership hopefuls' plans to shred green tape Why freeports are encroaching on national parks Why spider crabs mass gatherings are becoming more frequent Post Brexit green rules divergenc...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 17th episode, the ENDS team is joined by musician and angler Feargal Sharkey who does not pull punches when laying the blame for the mismanagement of water quality at the doors of the Environment Agency, Ofwat and the water s...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shares the latest policy gossip, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 16th episode, the team explores: The EA chair-designate's lack of green vision Why England's nature target could be unlawful An octopus boom in the south-west The impact on green policy of Bo...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 15th episode the team explores: Why Dairy Crest was hit with a £1.5m pound fine The impact of industrial action at England’s nature regulator How a new town development coul...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 14th episode, the team explores: Jacob Rees-Mogg and George Eustice’s tiff over axing EU laws Why DEFRA's Environmental Land Management Scheme is coming unstuck How the ospr...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 13th episode, the team explores: Why water protection rules aren't being enforced What the green watchdog thinks of government's green policy A major new national nature res...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this 12th episode, the team explores: The sixth mass extinction  Natural England's water warnings The green watchdog's first howl of disapproval  Government's plans for...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this episode: DEFRA's missing environmental principles  Why justifications for a new coal mine don't stack up The fate of the UK's plastic waste The towns with the wors...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this tenth episode, the team explores: Why staff are leaving the Environment Agency in droves Why DEFRA's being so coy about showing the workings behind its green goals Whether t...

Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today. In this ninth episode, the team explores: DEFRA planned new air pollution targets How nutrient pollution is blocking housebuilding  Why beavers are making a comeback in London...