Eco Chamber

By Environmental Data Services (ENDS)

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Every week, 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. Read more on the issues covered at www.endsreport.com or follow us on Twitter @TheENDSReport

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Episode Date
Green King of the North? How does Andy Burnham's environmental track record measure up?
Jun 10, 2026
War of the words: Starmer's blog and Reform UK's quango policy
Jun 03, 2026
The ties that bind: Toxic chemicals, dead monkeys and an English town
May 27, 2026
King's Speech debrief and unearthing Surrey's toxic landfill legacy
May 20, 2026
Election results debrief: Will Labour losses see environmental policy zombified?
May 13, 2026
Boiling Point: MPs call for more water chief scalps as planned King's Speech debates raise eyebrows
May 06, 2026
Chicken run? UK's 'biggest ever eco-lawsuit' and Natural England’s SSSI retreat
Apr 29, 2026
Election preview: where the environmental battles will be won and lost
Apr 27, 2026
Nature by numbers: Net gain shake-up as green watchdog sets sights on new leader
Apr 22, 2026
Aftersun: Reform UK casts long shadow over solar boom
Apr 15, 2026
Get Britain drilling say Tories as MPs eye environment watchdogs for merger
Apr 01, 2026
In Our Blood: Lifting the lid on Britain's forever chemical scandal
Mar 25, 2026
Did green groups’ nuclear deterrent head off radical nature reforms?
Mar 18, 2026
To infinity and beyond: Is the space industry on a crash course with the environment?
Mar 11, 2026
Green Party gains in Manchester – but did the environment get a look in?
Mar 04, 2026
Dirty Business: The sewage drama that gives water industry the Post Office scandal treatment
Feb 25, 2026
The Sea Empress disaster revisited as Reform UK eyes up nature policies
Feb 18, 2026
Watchdog green light as Treasury updates Green Book
Feb 11, 2026
'Roadmap to nowhere': PFAS action plan slammed for lack of substance
Feb 04, 2026
Fingleton Review: NGOs rail against controversial nuclear report 'inaccuracies'
Jan 28, 2026
Super Regulator: water white paper sets sights on watchdogs
Jan 21, 2026
‘Nature law breaker?’: Green watchdog issues warning on key wildlife target
Jan 14, 2026
AI and the environment: Is the genie out of the bottle?
Jan 07, 2026
Silent night: net gain ‘wounded’ in winter overhaul
Dec 19, 2025
Access Denied: Does the environment sector have a problem with class?
Dec 17, 2025
Starmer goes nuclear on 'fundamentally misguided environmental regulations'
Dec 10, 2025
Environmental Improvement Plan makes landfall – but Starmer M.I.A
Dec 03, 2025
COP, out: Climate summit key takeaways as UK budget looms
Nov 26, 2025
Planning Bill ping-pongs as waste mountain piles up
Nov 19, 2025
Mitigation hierarchy hijinks in Planning Bill final furlong
Nov 12, 2025
EA comes out swinging as Lords slam waste crime 'incompetence’
Nov 05, 2025
Nutrient neutrality gets legal 'Dyno-Rod' as Planning Bill looms
Oct 29, 2025
Uncloaked: Labour targets planning ‘traitors’ as Reform rages at solar
Oct 22, 2025
Flooding: Is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster Labour’s ‘build, baby, build’ blindspot?
Oct 15, 2025
Party’s over as Tories target climate law, ‘carbon taxes’ and DEFRA’s agencies
Oct 08, 2025
‘Build, baby, build’: Labour Party Conference red hats, red tape - and green nerves
Oct 01, 2025
Reap what you sow: Lancashire's toxic town - exposed
Sep 24, 2025
Boy Wasted: What happens next?
Sep 15, 2025
Boy Wasted - Episode 3: Wasted Lives
Sep 15, 2025
Boy Wasted - Episode 2: The Boss
Sep 15, 2025
Boy Wasted - Episode 1: The Body
Sep 15, 2025
Reform UK jamboree hands mic to climate denial as Starmer shuffles the deck
Sep 10, 2025
Coming soon: Boy Wasted
Sep 10, 2025
Sweet nothings: What hot fudge sundaes have to do with a PFAS lobbying push
Sep 03, 2025
No birdie for golfing billionaire as watchdog bristles at golf course plans
Aug 27, 2025
The sky high PFAS levels revealed at England's airports
Aug 20, 2025
High seas for UK seabirds as world's 'biggest' wind farm greenlit
Aug 13, 2025
Watchdog barks as biodiversity net gain foundations shake
Aug 06, 2025
Summer of green discontent? Reform UK councils make net zero moves, Corbyn stakes eco claims
Jul 30, 2025
KAPOW! Ofwat whacked as new water super regulator rises
Jul 23, 2025
Toxic sludge: How the government ignored Environment Agency pleas for reform
Jul 16, 2025
Troubled Waters: The hidden river pollutants being brought to light
Jul 10, 2025
Farming rules or does water? DEFRA faces new legal challenge
Jul 09, 2025
The force awakens? Tory fears over Natural England's 'new authoritarian empire'
Jul 02, 2025
The Industrial Strategy: Will it really 'power Britain’s future'?
Jun 25, 2025
Spending Review run-down: DEFRA cuts and nuclear boom
Jun 18, 2025
High seas for bottom-trawling and Planning Bill amendments
Jun 11, 2025
Less gain, more pain? Biodiversity net gain reform run-down
Jun 04, 2025
The DEFRA strategy left on the shelf after seven years of work
May 28, 2025
Internal SOS for DEFRA environment plan revealed plus Starmer’s Brexit ‘reset’
May 21, 2025
Whose law is it anyway? Deep dive as Planning Bill comes under pressure
May 14, 2025
Farage declares war on ‘woke’ climate jobs, puffins party as sandeels saved
May 07, 2025
Natural England chief's 'epic misunderstanding' and historic landfill headache
Apr 30, 2025
Unplanned consequences? Planning Bill steams ahead and British Steel scoop
Apr 23, 2025
Down but not out? Greening Britain’s steel and Gove’s return
Apr 16, 2025
Trump tariff turbulence meets UK net zero
Apr 09, 2025
Bees saved from the bonfire? DEFRA review recommends red tape revolution
Apr 02, 2025
Road run-off rage as DEFRA braces for budget cuts
Mar 26, 2025
Eight legs, 15,000 homes and an action plan
Mar 19, 2025
EA's hazardous staffing crisis and nature levy lurches forward
Mar 12, 2025
DEFRA frees the beavers and fresh Walleys Quarry woes
Mar 05, 2025
God’s Own Dark Waters - Exposing a chemical scandal: Part 2
Feb 28, 2025
God’s Own Dark Waters - Exposing a chemical scandal: Part 1
Feb 26, 2025
Reed to rewire DEFRA amid ammonia accounting tricks
Feb 19, 2025
Number 10 poops BNG’s party, and AI’s thirsty footprint
Feb 12, 2025
Fights over farmland and Heathrow déjà vu
Feb 05, 2025
Starmer’s fish disco flap and bees buzzing after Cruiser SB crushed
Jan 29, 2025
Trump’s onslaught of orders and Reeves’ regulation attack
Jan 22, 2025
Lynx let loose and landfill laggards
Jan 15, 2025
Sir Keir’s regulatory Christmas cracker and green gongs for beekeepers
Jan 08, 2025
ECO CHAMBER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: The big green round-up of 2024
Dec 18, 2024
Labour's most wanted: bats and newts cop the blame for the housing crisis
Dec 11, 2024
Has the EA finally stopped the stink at Walleys Quarry?
Dec 04, 2024
‘Tractor tax’ troubles and deposit return scheme disarray
Nov 27, 2024
Access Denied: The environment sector’s problem with race
Nov 22, 2024
Chemical conundrum in the Cotswolds and watchdog’s farm pollution probe
Nov 20, 2024
Souped-up landfills, welly wars, and HS2’s £100m bat ‘shed’
Nov 13, 2024
DEFRA’s Budget blues and will Reeves’ raid ‘ruin’ the countryside?
Nov 06, 2024
Big carbon budgets, the new PRO waste squad PLUS the DRS glass ceilings that won't shatter
Oct 30, 2024
DEFRA’s growth mindset, sewage spills into court and EfW fighting ‘dirty’
Oct 23, 2024
Starmer's red tape rampage rings alarm bells for nature
Oct 16, 2024
Forbidden fruit, DEFRA’s growing pains, and the true cost of offshore wind
Oct 09, 2024
Toxic shock: the nasties lurking in the sewage sludge being spread on UK fields
Oct 02, 2024
Labour conference special: Passport controls, DEFRA ‘captured’, and farming budget fracas
Sep 25, 2024
PFAS price tag revealed, curtains for Cumbria coal mine, and the true cost of nationalising our water
Sep 18, 2024
Sewage fat cats face the clink, net gain loopholes and Labour's 'reckless' solar expansion
Sep 11, 2024
Highways from hell: how toxic run-off from roads is poisoning our waterways
Sep 04, 2024
Airport expansion exasperation, sewage sludge time bomb, and the airline rapped over ‘misleading’ green claims
Aug 28, 2024
The cyanide spill that closed a canal, water guzzling golf courses PLUS the UK-EU chemical policy chasm
Aug 21, 2024
The bat police, the EA’s pension pot problem, and Miliband’s solar ‘error’
Aug 14, 2024
Rat summer, fresh PFAS revelations PLUS Labour's planning revolution
Aug 07, 2024
The Tories' toxic pesticide, England's over-abstraction baddies PLUS the swimworthy rivers of Swiss cities
Jul 31, 2024
The supersized King's Speech PLUS The Wildlife Trusts' CEO on housing, Celtic rainforests and Labour's vision
Jul 24, 2024
Miliband’s solar power play, Ofwat gives? PLUS The greenest cities in England
Jul 17, 2024
Labour landslide: who’s in, who’s out PLUS Reeves revs up building blitz
Jul 10, 2024
Fibreglass-filled oysters, the new cow tax PLUS the general election showdown for nature
Jul 03, 2024
Supreme Court strikes down oil, nature's protest PLUS what happens when NGOs get too close to big business
Jun 26, 2024
MAYDAY: The forgotten poison in our skies
Jun 20, 2024
Manifesto magic tricks, Reform’s revenge PLUS the carbon blowouts that could break our skies
Jun 19, 2024
The highways from hell killing our waterways PLUS the latest general election green policy pledges
Jun 12, 2024
Green battle lines drawn, Saltmarsh SSSI bulldozed, PLUS the professor of faith on guarding God's garden
Jun 05, 2024
The policies lost in the election wash-up, Labour's green mission PLUS the most PFAS-polluted town in England
May 29, 2024
Bathing water baddies PLUS River Summit special ft. Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray, Philip Duffy and Angela Henry
May 22, 2024
DEFRA vs OEP, the lost infringement cases, PLUS the UK's diverging green policy
May 15, 2024
ULEZ upset averted, climate ‘clown show’ PLUS Dartmoor's sheepwrecked SSSIs
May 08, 2024
Permitting regime ‘collapse’, ‘fake’ DRS promises, PLUS Goldsmith, Eustice and Stacey on the legacy of a landmark act
May 01, 2024
Ex-minister on DEFRA's inner workings, where is the LUF? PLUS The EfW industry responds to Barclay's freeze
Apr 24, 2024
Duffy's EfW dust-up, Wye's there a new champion? PLUS the floating Celtic Sea wind giant
Apr 17, 2024
Barclay’s burner bother, beaver builders PLUS Tories driven batty by Natural England
Apr 10, 2024
Thames Water turmoil, Ofwat has it large PLUS the kelp forests of Sussex
Apr 03, 2024
Dartmoor's thorny SSSI plans, Ed's £28bn climate elephant, PLUS the bugs lost by net gain
Mar 27, 2024
Ex-ministers' masks slip, watchdogs’ united front PLUS the lights that blind us
Mar 20, 2024
The sounds of the underground, Hunt’s Cambridge credit punt, and the EA scores red
Mar 14, 2024
Walleys' whiff gets watchdog whack, Ofwat's growing pains and climate tsar shambles
Mar 07, 2024
Minette batters the regulators, EA chair‘s ‘uncomfortable’ PowerPoint slides PLUS pollution penalty perils
Feb 28, 2024
Falcon snatchers, the burners blocking PM2.5 progress PLUS the next EU laws on the chopping block
Feb 21, 2024
PopCons go potty, water boss bonus block PLUS, EU's afraid of the big bad wolf
Feb 14, 2024
Landfills’ toxic secret, BNG metric meltdown and Wales gets a watchdog
Feb 07, 2024
EA permit delays exposed, DEFRA rapped over water pollution, PLUS who's tapping England's rivers?
Jan 31, 2024
Watchdog mauls DEFRA, EA compliance target controversy PLUS nutrient neutrality expert on the law
Jan 24, 2024
Why oh Wye, climate watchdog goes starkers PLUS your green policy guide to the year ahead
Jan 17, 2024
Sunak hits the skids, Gove's green agenda and pine martens triumph
Jan 10, 2024
Christmas special: The year’s worst villains, biggest gaffes, and 2023’s top of the poops
Dec 20, 2023
Call the COPs, the countdown to BNG, and DEFRA's smoke and mirrors air policy
Dec 13, 2023
Bathing water stink, AONB or not to AONB and Suez lays waste to the EA
Dec 06, 2023
EA shake-up scoop, climate COP-out, PLUS the nightmare nurdles choking the planet
Nov 29, 2023
Fish justice, zombie power project purge PLUS Plantlife on net gain and grasslands
Nov 22, 2023
Coffey quits, curtains for Curtin, and Barclay’s big brief
Nov 15, 2023
Water framework fracas, the silent King's speech, and the Environment Act, two years on
Nov 08, 2023
LURB sick, Wales' sorry sewage saga PLUS Fish Legal on how to win eco-battles
Nov 01, 2023
Barcodes for big bags, Wales' sewage shocker PLUS mitigation expert on nutrient neutrality solutions
Oct 25, 2023
No scrubs, fire and rehire, and the unholy trinity of waste...
Oct 18, 2023
Starmer's bulldozer blitz PLUS Natural Resources Wales' Steve Ormerod on water pollution
Oct 11, 2023
Tories go bananas, net gain knock-back, and Scotland’s push to liquify the dead
Oct 04, 2023
Seven deadly bins, Coffey’s complacency PLUS an interview with rewilder Ben Goldsmith
Sep 27, 2023
No LURB lost, junked food policy, and hen harriers flying high
Sep 20, 2023
Watchdog bares its teeth, winds of change, and Europe's most wanted predator
Sep 13, 2023
Regression row, LIAR-gate, and Rishi rearranges the deck chairs
Sep 06, 2023
Gove's nitrates war, Scotland's hare cull and England's water woes
Aug 30, 2023
Pollution penalty shootout, water voles let loose, PLUS international climate broker on finding consensus
Aug 23, 2023
Rest in Greenpeace, nutrient numbers unpacked, and Starmer drama over clean air
Aug 16, 2023
Inflation bites, Coffey's REUL retort, PLUS the lawyer who speaks for the trees
Aug 09, 2023
North Sea black gold, net gain price tags and air pollution battles
Aug 02, 2023
ULEZ roadblocks, Nutrients overload PLUS interview with Natural England's net gain tsar Nick White
Jul 26, 2023
Top of the poops, reintroductions row, and the EA gets new teeth
Jul 19, 2023
Nutrients nightmare, forever pollution, and Starmer’s tree-hugger tirade
Jul 12, 2023
Zac attack, Thames troubles, and they think it's REUL over
Jul 05, 2023
Special episode: Interview with Environment Agency interim chief executive John Curtin
Jun 28, 2023
‘Highland tigers’ and ‘devastating’ pollution, PLUS interview with Uplift’s Tessa Khan
Jun 21, 2023
WILDERNESS: The Wounding of England's Last Great Wild Spaces
Jun 14, 2023
Health and safety gone bad, sheep scraped Dartmoor and the man who blew the lid off the sewage scandal
Jun 07, 2023
REUL bill battles, Green cities and wild boar livers
May 31, 2023
Agencies ignored, Oxford’s glory, and Rewilding Britain's Alastair Driver on tackling rewilding myths
May 25, 2023
Peat prosecution, Labour's leak, and REUL's sunset uplands
May 17, 2023
The trees that toppled the Tories, Green Party gains, and Labour's EA vision
May 10, 2023
Drought danger, sewage sanctions, and DEFRA’s dire straits
May 03, 2023
Trade deal troubles and SSSI bulldozer baddie banged up
Apr 26, 2023
OEP intervention, ‘hitchhiking’ bacteria and DEFRA’s transparency problem
Apr 19, 2023
REUL Bill retreat, sparrowhawk down and sewage woes
Apr 12, 2023
Sunak's Green Day, net gain metric 4.0 and EA chief's exit
Apr 05, 2023
DRS disaster, dormice killings and surfing on sewage
Mar 29, 2023
Watchdog walkouts, COMAH crisis, and inside Attenborough's Wild Isles
Mar 21, 2023
Dark waters, shrew-eating spiders, and DEFRA's 'useless legacy'
Mar 07, 2023
Shell sued, wood-burning worries, and DEFRA's dirty data
Feb 21, 2023
Trash talk, acronym overload, and DEFRA’s sunset clause strife
Feb 07, 2023
Divide and REUL, beaver breakout, and DEFRA’s ‘culture of delay’
Jan 24, 2023
River target tussle, raptor reckoning, and the notorious BNG
Jan 10, 2023
The heroes, villains and biggest gaffes of 2022
Dec 20, 2022
Peer pressure, tidal power, and the government's pilloried poo plan
Nov 29, 2022
Forever chemicals, Bevan's goodbye and net zero heroes
Nov 15, 2022
Phantom rules, tardy targets, and Thérèse Coffey's comeback
Nov 01, 2022
Lord Heseltine interview, EA strikes and Labour's lacklustre green policies
Oct 18, 2022
Jemima Clusterduck, Tory conference gossip and the Environment Agency's dirty secret
Oct 04, 2022
SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon
Sep 28, 2022
DEFRA's ministerial massacre, ENDS on film, and Charles the climate king
Sep 21, 2022
Packham's provocation, Truss's triumph and how England's sewage hit Europe's fan
Sep 06, 2022
Brexit shredders, freeport fears and the invasion of the spider crabs
Aug 16, 2022
Feargal's fury, beaver fever and heatwave hellscapes
Aug 02, 2022
Zombie government, octopus explosion and dodgy green goals
Jul 12, 2022
Dirty dairy, polluting poultry and muck-spreading mayhem
Jun 28, 2022
Rees-Mogg’s red tape battle, the return of the osprey, and England’s shrinking shoreline
Jun 20, 2022
The lynx effect, pesky pesticides and rule-breaking farmers
May 26, 2022
Biological annihilation, snail assault and 100 powerful people
May 17, 2022
Missing bees, England's dirty bathing waters, and microplastics in make-up
May 05, 2022
Ecocide, super quangos and Top of the Poops 2
Apr 22, 2022
Beaver fever, dirty air, and chalk streams in crisis
Apr 05, 2022
Ottergeddon, toxic toys and DEFRA's bonfire of the quangos
Mar 22, 2022
Alien vs predator, toxic air and nature's drug problem
Mar 08, 2022
Mysterious sea eagle deaths, toxic tap water and the UK's first climate refugees
Feb 22, 2022
Dirty cities, banned pesticides, and could Henry VIII powers see green rules get the chop?
Feb 08, 2022
Jaws of death, neutered watchdog and ignorance-based regulation
Jan 25, 2022
Killer whale apocalypse, sheep-scraped hellscapes and England's ignored pollution
Jan 12, 2022
Top of the poops: rewilding and eco colonialism, revenge of the chickens, and toxic tattoos
Dec 07, 2021
Algal blooms of doom, the sewage scandal and underhand chemicals
Nov 23, 2021