@shoshaadie.bsky.social
Senior environmental journalist at ENDS Report - on the water and chemicals policy beat👩💼previously a local reporter 🗞 News Associates alumni 👩💻 UCL anthropology grad👩🎓 she/her
At the Green Party conference today!
The buzz and energy that Zack Polanski has brought to the party is already palpable, but interestingly there are far fewer events on climate policy/the environment than expected.
If you’re around please do say hi 👋
Energy minister Michael Shanks has just described this Labour conference as an “energy Conference with some Labour fringe events” — and that feels very much the case!
I’ve found less water events than last year, still looking for some events on chemicals policy too. If you’re around, do say hi! 💚
This is definitely one to tune in to! ⚠️
ENDS has teamed up with the same duo that brought you the BBC's Buried podcast ⬇️
A bale of plastic.
A mystery body.
A global investigation.
Boy Wasted - a new true-crime series - out next week.
Subscribe to the Eco Chamber podcast now wherever you get your podcasts to get it in your feed.
Whatever side of the political spectrum you're on, trying to limit climate change should be something we can all agree on. Renewables are the way forward - they're cheaper in the long-run too.
It's absolutely unethical to weaponise misinformation and get people to act against their own interests.
Years and years of work is going to be undone if we go back on net zero, at a time when the biggest push is needed to meet our climate and nature targets.
These targets aren't just to protect the planet, its to ensure our survival & the future generations survival. Plus they're the bare minimum!
🚨BREAKING 🚨
Steve Reed, former DEFRA secretary, has been appointed as housing secretary following the resignation of Angela Rayner today ⬇️
@chemtrust.bsky.social & other campaigners have called on water minister Hardy to use the revised Environmental Improvement Plan to close the UK-EU “regulatory gap” on chemicals.
This follows the news that a long promised chemicals strategy has been shelved 💡
Letter seen by @endsreport.com ⬇️
Thrilled & honoured to have made the #PPANextGen list of 30 rising stars for 2025 🙏
Extremely grateful to my editors @pippaneill.bsky.social and @jamiecarpenter.bsky.social for putting me forward - plus the hugely @endsreport.com team 💚
Overall, 45 organisations have been allocated a total £10.4m, with funds to go to 51 projects.
60% of the successful applicants were charities, with a handful of local authorities, companies, and other groups also making the cut.
More @endsreport.com ⬇️
🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨
Who has been granted a slice of the £11m in water company fines ring-fenced for river restoration by the Tories all that time ago?
This is now public, after an EIR request I made in response to the uncertainty over the fate of the fund ⬇️
The dossier proposes a ban on the placing on the market and use of all PFAS in firefighting foams 💡
@chemtrust.bsky.social's Dr Sharma said: “The EU has already agreed to banning PFAS in firefighting foams and the UK must ensure that its restriction is put in place quickly and without any delays."
Finally!
HSE has published its restriction dossier on PFAS in firefighting foams, which will now see a six month consultation 🚨
consultations.hse.gov.uk/crd-reach/pf...
“Faced with political gridlock, businesses increasingly represent an effective lever to move the environmental agenda forward...”
I explore how NGOs are weathering the current geopolitical storm for @endsreport.com, featuring insights from a press trip I recently went on with Novotel x WWF ⬇️
Particularly concerning as there are thousands of unmonitored highway outfalls across the UK, channeling road run-off with chemical contaminants from tyres into rivers, estuaries and the sea ⚠️
We need to get a grip on this!
🌊The government has been advised to review the current water legislative framework, including reforming the Water Framework Directive. But what is proposed, and why are some proposals controversial?
@shoshaadie.bsky.social reports ⬇️
“Farmers are being deceived by the water companies” - @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Have you read the sludge files yet? 💡
ENDS revealed 22 tonnes of microplastics are dumped on farms PER DAY via sewage sludge - and that the government has sat on warnings for years ⚠️
Find out more ⬇️
Vegetables grown in an allotment near a Lancashire chemical plant have been found to contain elevated levels of PFOA, a carcinogenic forever chemical ⚠️
Soil samples in nearby residential gardens were also confirmed to contain elevated levels of the chemical.
@pippaneill.bsky.social reports ⬇️
David Attenborough’s call to end damaging fishing practices in a recent documentary has seen marine protections soar up the public agenda 🌊
But did policymakers manage to ride this wave at the UN Oceans conference last week? Here's my take for @endsreport.com ! ⬇️
"The government has protected funding for England’s post-Brexit nature-friendly farming schemes to the end of this parliament, in a move welcomed by campaigners following rumours that significant cuts were likely" ⬇️
11.06.2025 15:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DEFRA's overall settlement provides total funding of £7.4 billion in 2028-29. This is a -0.7% cut in terms of the annual average real terms growth rate (calculated from 2023-24).
Day-to-day spending has seen the biggest cut at 2.7%, but capital funding saw an increase of 2.5% for this period.
The spending review document outlines that the government will invest more than £2.7bn per year in sustainable farming and nature recovery from 2026-27 until 2028-29 ⚠️
11.06.2025 12:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0On carbon capture and storage, Reeves said: “Today I can announce support for the Acorn Project in Aberdeenshire, supporting Scotland’s transition from oil and gas to low-carbon technology.
“We are also backing the Viking Project in Humberside."
Chancellor Reeves reiterated that the government backs the Heathrow expansion and added that the airport has signed the UK Steel Charter: “A multibillion pound airport expansion backed by Labour, built by British steel”.
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The full document is also out now, which outlines the departmental budgets.
Reeves announced that total departmental budgets are to grow by 2.3% in real terms across the Spending Review
period (next three years for day-to-day spending and next five years for capital investment) 💷
"Energy security is national security"
Reeves confirms £30bn will be ring fenced for nuclear. This includes the £14bn investment package for Sizewell C... ⬇️
www.endsreport.com/article/1921239
Spending Review here we go!
At @endsreport.com we'll be covering what it the announcements mean for the environment 🌱
Finally got confirmation on the rumours that the long delayed Chemicals Strategy, first announced by the previous government, has been shelved by Labour ⚠️ A new one might be developed though!
An update is expected in the new Environment Improvement Plan ⬇️
Will have some more insights for you tomorrow!
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