Steve Bungay

I'll be there, September 7th.
www.tourde4.com

I will be talking about residual biogas and process emissions at the IChemE Future Water Treatment Conference in September.

www.icheme.org/training-eve...

I will be talking in the Wastewater Treatment Process Emissions session.

#processemissions #biogas #methane #anaerobicdigestion

Looks like Southern Water are getting in the queue behind Thames Water.

Kris Hansen's PFAS Journal Applying my experiences as a 3M scientist to illustrate industries' efforts to manufacture doubt about global PFAS contamination.

Dr. Kris Hansen, analytical chemist whose 1990s work at 3M was profiled in Propublica/New Yorker, has started "Kris Hansen's PFAS Journal," a Substack newsletter about PFAS contamination and industry's manufacture of doubt. Check it out!

kris434.substack.com/p/kris-hanse...

A good read, as always.

Worse still, Drax claims the trees arrive in Britain entirely carbon free, and burning them makes ‘green’ - who are they kidding? Perhaps the biggest greenwash Britain has ever suffered. Time to end it.

Thames Water renationalisation plans being stepped up, says minister Environment secretary indicates that calls from creditors for leniency from fines and penalties will be rejected

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

It really is time to nationalise water There are occasions when it is important to recall just why privatisation was supposed to have taken place in things like the UK water industry. The claim was that private capital would deliver addit...

It really is time to nationalise water www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/06...

‘Grown-ass men cry in our arms!’ The political, powerful music of soul band Durand Jones and the Indications Equally at ease with making sex-playlist jams and socially conscious songs, the revered group are fretting about fascism – but are determined to find common ground for Americans

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/j...

I regularly use the Merlin app. It helped me to identify a Goldcrest the other morning.

Public ownership of England’s water companies could cost close to zero, says thinktank Exclusive: Common Wealth report argues debt, pollution and underinvestment justify process known as special administration

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The report identifies problems with “pollution, financial difficulties, mismanagement [and] infrastructure failures".
And the recommendation is to…improve regulation.
Surely the solution is to improve the sector, not the regulation of a sector that is broken.

If you take a walk along the Swift from Stoke, passing the almost permanent tankering from a sewer manhole, then through St Mary Bourne to the sewage pumping station which often also has tankers lining up waiting the tanker away), I suspect Vitacress isn’t the problem threatening the Swift.

Exclusive: EU explores tweaking methane rules for US gas to help trade talks, sources say The European Union is looking at ways to make it easier for U.S. gas exports to comply with its methane emissions rules, as the bloc attempts to avert a trade war with U.S. President Trump, three sources told Reuters.

U.S. methane gas can never meet the EU methane rules especially with Trump removing regulations. Everybody knew that. So...

The EU has decided to create some loopholes that will make dirty US LNG appear clean.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Tories tutted, but did not deny.

EPA Considers Giving Oil and Gas Companies More ‘Flexibility’ to Dispose of Highly Toxic Wastewater - Inside Climate News Technology to treat produced water has advanced. But critics warn against relaxing protections for disposal “of what is very hazardous material.”

Oil and gas industry wants to be able to dump highly toxic fracking wastewater—full of benzene and heavy metals, often radioactive—with more abandon, including in rivers and streams, and White House is open to that.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2003202...

Agricultural biologist, Jeff Waage, discusses bringing science into policy & recognising the problem in #ScientistsOnSurvival 🧑‍🔬

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We Can Solve Climate’s Methane Crisis—And Without New Satellites or Regulations New regulations, and satellites such as MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methane emissions. Natural gas industry economics will instead continue delaying their needed reduction

Last year we wrote about what this means in the oilfields.

"...emissions of methane that had negative economic value at the time. It was cheaper for the companies to vent it than sell it. That means we all end up paying the cost for their pollution."

What is the role for Labour now that it is so obviously the Tory party? Wes Streeting, Labour’s health minister, whose remit only effectively extends to England, said last night that the NHS was full of brilliant people who were set up to fail. He used this claim to just...

Wes Streeting a plan for NHS England so obviously intended to prepare it for sale that he might as well have called in Goldman Sachs to deliver it. In that case, what is the remaining point of Labour?

www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/03...

Thanks @nedboulting.bsky.social I would have missed it otherwise.

“Is President Trump a Russian asset?”
Jeff Merkley
United States Senator

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

River Action UK on LinkedIn: #polluting #rescuebritainsrivers | 49 comments Hey Mark Standish, are you listening? Celebrities have joined our call to demand that you clean up Nando's #polluting poultry units, which are KILLING… | 49 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/river-...

Vehicle tyres found to be biggest source of nanoplastics in the high Alps Mountaineers now scaling more peaks for first global study of nanoplastics, which can enter lungs and bloodstream

Nanoplastics - particles tiny enough to penetrate the lungs & enter the bloodstream, caused by wear & tear on car tyres, & dispersed on the wind they are found in the highest Alpine peaks.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump: following in Hitler’s footsteps? As Trump begins his second term with the far right on the march across America, is history about to repeat itself in more ways than one?

"Days before Donald Trump’s inauguration... an article appeared in the US magazine The Atlantic: ‘How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy in 53 Days’.

Trump’s name doesn’t appear at all in the piece by Timothy Ryback, a historian and an authority on 1930s Germany. But joining the dots is not difficult."

A recent report from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency supports this potential with measurements conducted at VCS Denmark. The research was part of project ARES - Active Reduction of Emissions from Wastewater treatment Plants.

www2.mst.dk/Udgiv/publik...

I stopped using Twitter about six months ago. Today I logged on solely to deactivate my account.
This was just after I deleted my Facebook account.

Nice article, and always good to have a reminder about Never Strays Far.