Alice Ross

Trump golf course in Scotland repeatedly broke sewage contamination limits Sewage discharge testing found ‘non-compliant’ samples 14 times since 2019

As Trump visits the king & protestors march through London, we obtained data showing that the president's Scottish golf course repeatedly breached sewage contamination limits

My latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social

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‘No Plan B’: Water companies fear pollution crackdown will stop them spreading sewage sludge on farmland

water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go'

my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social

with @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

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Opposite Day Alien vs Predator: Whoever Loses, We Win

BREAKING:

More than 100 old landfills across England containing potentially hazardous material have flooded at least once this century.

Experts have raised concerns that dangerous substances could get into the environment through floodwater.

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I have been reporting on deforestation in Brazil for years.

Last year, along with @aliceross.bsky.social and Naira Hofmeister, I decided to dig into beef giant JBS’s flagship promise: to eliminate deforestation from its Amazon supply chain by the end of 2025.

So what’s actually changed?

Greenpeace ordered to pay Dakota Access Pipeline operator hundreds of millions in defamation suit A North Dakota jury awarded damages to Energy Transfer, the company that runs the Dakota Access Pipeline, after finding Greenpeace liable in a high-stakes defamation case.

The decision regarding Energy Transfer v Greenpeace about the activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline is out. Not only will the decision likely bankrupt Greenpeace US, but it will set a precedent that could limit free speech by climate groups & other NGOs.
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This is quite something 📉

Elon Musk’s Embrace of Far-Right Energizes Transatlantic Climate Denial In December, a Chicago-based organization called the Heartland Institute, which for decades has attempted to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change, devoted an episode of its daily…

Elon Musk’s shift to far-right alliances is fuelling climate denial across the U.S. and Europe, undermining climate action while boosting extremist parties like Germany’s AfD. Read
@desmog.bsky.social‬ deep dive into this troubling trend:

Here's a 🧵 on my latest story, out today with The i inews.co.uk/news/shell-g...

I've been staring at a lot of ship tracking videos lately.

We joined Bluesky one month ago today 🐋 Thanks to everyone who has followed and engaged with our climate and nature investigations so far.

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The UK is exporting thousands of tonnes of a toxic weedkiller called diquat, even though its use has been banned here for years. More than half goes to Brazil.

We spoke to the Brazilian farmers poisoned with this dangerous export.

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Protection deal for Amazon rainforest in peril as big business turns up heat Exclusive: With Brazil’s politicians, agribusiness organisations and global traders piling on the pressure, the highly successful 2006 Soy Moratorium is under threat

Super important news here:

A historic agreement that has helped curb deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon for nearly twenty years is under threat from big agribusiness

Weakening the soy moratorium could push the Amazon closer to a catastrophic tipping point

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Ealing: First baby beavers born in urban London for 400 years Ealing Beaver Project says it shows the beavers are

There are also beavers next to a retail park in Ealing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"I was covered in human poo": One family's shocking story of London's housing crisis Plus: Otters are getting closer to the centre of London.

There's an otter living behind the Big Tesco in Barking, @londoncentric.media reports

(warning: much of the rest of the newsletter is a horrific indictment of London's housing crisis, also very much worth reading) www.londoncentric.media/p/i-was-cove...

Amazon Haul Is an Omen Welcome to the slop era of online shopping.

Earlier this month, I wrote about Amazon Haul, the company's Temu-alike. As I wrote here, I suspect Amazon would prefer to get to the point where they can disclaim any implied promise of quality or fitness, and make it hard or impossible to return such goods too.
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He even called it Diddly Squat, which I assume is a reference to the inheritance tax bill he was anticipating.

💣NEW/FOIA Files: EXCLUSIVE: After nearly 8 yrs of painstaking public records work, ODNI declassified a closely guarded memorandum in response to my request related to the targeted assassinations of Vladimir Putin’s political foes. It’s a HUGE score

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Climate Science Deniers Use Farmers’ Protests to Attack Net Zero A network of conspiracy theorists has jumped on the inheritance tax debate to fuel an anti-green “culture war”, experts say. Thousands of farmers demonstrated in Westminster on Tuesday against the Lab...

I'd missed the extent to which Jeremy Clarkson has really gone off the deep end (again).

Reeves and Starmer “want to carpet bomb our farmland with new towns for immigrants and net zero windfarms", apparently.

Yikes
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Even the most basic court records can be inexplicably hard to get hold of if you weren't in the room - @georgegreenwood.bsky.social is right that the UK needs a US PACER-style system

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

Five years ago, as campaigners fought to get a global plastic treaty off the ground, 30 companies involved in plastic – from Exxon to Veolia – got together to launch a $1.5 billion organisation to “end plastic waste”.

So how have they been doing? 🧵

#INC5

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Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

The big petro companies have been running a high-profile campaign to "end plastic waste." A new investigation shows that, during the campaign, these companies have produced 1000X more plastic than they have cleaned up. unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Just some oil industry execs explaining to their peers that climate change was a massive threat in 1984 and then doubling down for the next 40 years, nothing to see here

Bar chart showing how much plastic is produced by five executive-committee members of the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, compared to the amount of plastic it has removed from the environment. The bar for 'plastic removed' is so small we had to get the graphics department to do us an arrow showing where it is.

The Alliance to End Plastic Waste was set up by industry, aiming to spend $1.5bn on tackling plastic pollution. @zdboren.bsky.social and @emmahoward.bsky.social found that just five of its members produced 1,000 times more plastic than it's cleaned up unearthed.greenpeace.org/2024/11/20/a...

Companies behind campaign to ‘end plastic waste’ produced 1,000 times more plastic than it cleaned up The Alliance to End Plastic Waste spent five years clearing up the amount of plastic its key oil and chemical members produce in two days

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Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste".

Spoiler: it's not managed to

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next week the world is supposed to finalise a global treaty to tackle plastic pollution

my new investigation uncovers the PR and lobbying strategy behind Big Oil's influential initiative to 'end plastic waste'

with @emmahoward.bsky.social

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