‘Asleep at the wheel’: Leader of Wyre Council calls for PFAS blood testing for residents Wyre Council has been “hung out to dry” by the government over the ongoing PFOA contaminated land investigation in Thornton-Cleveleys, the council leader has told ENDS, calling for PFAS blood testing ...

EXCLUSIVE: The leader of Wyre Council has called for PFAS blood testing and for a “proper inquiry” into the health of local residents.

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‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?

Petrochemicals for plastic are "expected to be the largest single driver of oil demand in the decades to come".

Fascinating interview with Beth Gardiner about her new book: Plastic Inc: Big Oil, Big Money and the Plan to Trash Our Future

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High PFAS levels have been found in eggs as part of a contaminated land investigation – what happens next? Earlier this month, ENDS revealed that a woman living near a Lancashire chemicals factory had been told her pet duck’s eggs are contaminated with elevated levels of PFAS. What does this testing tell u...

Earlier this month, I revealed that a woman living near a Lancashire chemicals factory had been told her pet duck’s eggs are contaminated with elevated levels of PFAS. What does this tell us about the local council’s contaminated land investigation?

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The death of Heather Preen: how an eight-year-old lost her life amid the UK sewage crisis In 1999, Heather Preen contracted E coli on the beach. Two weeks later she died. Now, as a new Channel 4 show dramatises the scandal, her mother, Julie Maughan, explains why she is still looking for s...

Such a harrowing read detailing the real-world impacts of the sewage scandal.

I look forward to watching the full Channel 4 News series soon

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Some of world’s oldest trees hit by climate-fuelled wildfires in Patagonia Wildfires that left 23 people dead were made about three times more likely by global heating, researchers say

Some of world’s oldest trees hit by climate-fuelled wildfires in Patagonia

- Some Alerce trees had stood undisturbed for thousands of years, say researchers, but global heating is now supercharging blazes

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The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them, says environmental journalist Pippa Neill

The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn’t Britain?

Fantastic arguments here from @pippaneill.bsky.social

#PFAS

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The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them, says environmental journalist Pippa Neill

The EU is working on a blanket ban of #foreverchemicals. Why isn’t Britain?

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The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn't Britain? | Pippa Neill I met people living with dangerous levels of Pfas, including in their food. The government is failing them, says environmental journalist Pippa Neill

The EU is working on a blanket ban of ‘forever chemicals’. Why isn’t Britain?

Have a read of my opinion piece on the government's PFAS Plan in the Guardian today!

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‼️Elevated levels of #PFAS have been found in eggs from domestic birds within 1km of the AGC Chemicals plant in Lancashire, and residents have been warned not to eat them.

🔍This is part of an ongoing investigation into contaminated land near the plant.

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Residents advised not to eat eggs from birds reared near Lancashire PFAS factory <b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> A woman living near a Lancashire PFAS factory has said she is “terrified of going in the garden” after testing of her duck’s eggs by the local council has revealed that eating just o...

EXCLUSIVE: A woman living near a Lancashire PFAS factory has said she is “terrified of going in the garden” after testing of her duck’s eggs by the local council has revealed that eating just one egg a week would exceed safe levels of PFAS consumption.

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A research paper which concluded that the active substance glyphosate does not cause harm to humans has been formally retracted by the journal that originally published it.

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Aarhus Convention: UK accused of using ‘Trumpian shock tactics’ at UN meeting The UK government has been accused of destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism – a key global environmental agreement – after it refused to endorse a committee’s findings ...

The UK government has been accused of using 'Trumpian shock tactics' at a recent UN meeting and destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism - one of the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy

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Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’ Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated

The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge.

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Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked

Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.

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Why Walleys Quarry's closure may have backfired on the EA – and how the saga involves the Crown Estate When the EA ordered the scandal-ridden site to shut down, the operator simply walked away – and now the clean-up bill might go to the taxpayer. Was closure a blunder, or were there no better options f...

How did the country's most problem ridden landfill end up in the ownership of the Crown Estate?

Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out..

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Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support UN-led climate treaty process

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God's own Dark Waters? How Bentham became the most PFAS polluted place in the UK <B>God's own Dark Waters?</B>: ENDS investigates how an old market town in Yorkshire became the most PFAS polluted place in the UK

The newsletter also highlights public health data showing Bentham may be a “cancer hotspot” - with cancer mortality rates at 118.6 compared to the England average of 100.0, and significantly higher than the North Yorkshire average of 92.0.

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North Yorkshire town has UK’s highest concentration of ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS contamination recorded in groundwater on Angus Fire site in Bentham, and includes chemicals with known health impacts

The newsletter revisits my investigation which revealed that the small rural town of Bentham, North Yorkshire, has the highest levels of PFAS pollution ever known to be recorded in the UK. Bentham is home to firefighting foam manufacturer Angus Fire.

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Forever chemicals scandal comes to a head Bentham, a small town in the north of England, is proving a litmus test for a global pollution crisis

Great to see The Bureau of Investigative Journalism spotlighting my investigation into PFAS pollution in Bentham in The Spark, a newsletter that spotlights “stories from across the media and around the world that are changing the world for the better.”

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MP urges government to close ‘loophole’ allowing Blackpool chemical firm to produce products containing PFOA <strong>EXCLUSIVE: </strong> A Labour MP has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce pro...

This comes after I revealed that the Environment Agency is allowing AGC Chemicals Europe to produce products containing PFOA – a carcinogenic forever chemical – and release it to the air, despite the chemical being globally banned since 2019.

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MP urges government to close ‘loophole’ allowing Blackpool chemical firm to produce products containing PFOA <strong>EXCLUSIVE: </strong> A Labour MP has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce pro...

Labour MP Lorraine Beavers has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce products containing PFOA, a globally banned and carcinogenic chemical.

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Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions

This makes wood burners collectively more dangerous than UK roads because wood burners are killing more people annually

This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths

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No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations

15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year

- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions

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I think that's one of the saddest things about this situation - things that ought to create health have been poisoned @pippaneill.bsky.social spoke to one person who felt terrible that veg they'd given to friends + family might have contained harmful chemicals

Stark to hear Rosamund Kissi-Debrah recall the final days of her daughters life - who died due to air pollution - on the same day the news broke that the government will not adopt WHO air quality standards, despite pledging to do so

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US Senate poised to approve industry lobbyist to lead chemical safety at EPA If Douglas Troutman is confirmed, the top four toxics office at the environmental agency will be held by ex-lobbyists

An industry lobbyist is poised to lead chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency

Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer

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Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?

But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social

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Lawyers investigating group action claim over Walleys Quarry landfill Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire.

Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire.

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‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain hazardous isotope Caesium-137

A large industrial zone in Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood.

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