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@RachSalv
Oct 1, 2019 • 10 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
We're at the Tory Party conference keeping an eye on environmental announcments and developments. Here's what @TheENDSReport @simonpickstone and @Conor_ENDS have learned so far #CPC19
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(2/10) Chancellor @sajidjavid has launched 'Brexit red tape challenge' giving the UK the chance to "remove or improve" regulations
endsreport.com/article/166112…
(3/10) Environment secretary Theresa Villiers has said she wants to "take control of environmental regulations" after Brexit
endsreport.com/article/166112…
(4/10) Green groups are alarmed at the idea. @CraigBennett3 said the government is "definitely talking about lowering standards after Brexit… when they are talking about [cutting] red tape, they actually mean cutting environmental protections"
endsreport.com/article/166113…
(5/10) There's government resistance to setting legally binding targets in the Environment Bill. @ZacGoldsmith told a fringe event that the coming weeks may see “pushback from some elements of government”
endsreport.com/article/166110…
(6/10) A no-deal Brexit's, no big deal. @michaelgove suggested that crashing out of the EU without a deal could bring benefits for the UK’s life sciences sector, while @MPGeorgeEustice suggested the farmers could weather the storm
endsreport.com/article/166111…
(7/10) The Tories have pledged £1bn on tackling climate change, to be spent mainly on electric vehicles and batteries. Another £200m will go towards developing a nuclear fusion power station. Cheap at the price!
endsreport.com/article/166098…
(8/10) They'll also plant a million trees. A tad short of the @theCCCuk recommendation of 1.5bn new trees.
(9/10) The Tories are split over fracking policy (as Cuadrilla pretty much throws in the towel) endsreport.com/article/166098…
(10/10) And @andrealeadsom say the @LabourParty's pledge to hit net zero emissions by 2030 is “total tosh” and “utterly unachievable”!
endsreport.com/article/166111…

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Oct 15
BREAKING: The number of sites polluted with toxic PFAS is on the rise. There are now four being investigated (out of potentially thousands) and the Environment Agency is freaking out about the cost of investigation, let alone clean-up... 1/
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Site 1: Duxford airfield/museum. In 2022 I broke the story that PFOS has been found in drinking water supplies. Probably from firefighting foams that have percolated into the aquifer below. It's now being investigated. 2/
theguardian.com/environment/20…
Site 2: A former RAF base turned firefighting college in Moreton-in-Marsh in the Cotswolds is another. Probably safe to assume it's those PFOS-laden firefighting foams again. 3/
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Jun 27
Very excited to announce the launch of
THE WATERSHED POLLUTION MAP!

River health, landfills, sewage, road run-off, intensive farming, big industry, forever chemicals, abandoned mines, bathing waters, flood risk, protected areas and so much more... 🧵

bit.ly/45GBMRQ
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Here's a quick and simple guide showing you how best to use it:
With 100+ datasets, I don't think there's anything out there like it in terms of scope and detail.

We created it bcs, as part of our work, we collect lots of data from research & official sources. We wanted to collate it, sort it & make it accessible so that as many people...
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Dec 1, 2023
Big news!
We've been writing about PFAS pollution a lot and now one of them - PFOA - has been categorised as a carcinogen. It's been found in drinking water and PFAS are everywhere
‘Forever chemical’ in English tap water samples carcinogenic 1/6
theguardian.com/environment/20…
They've been found in drinking water sources across England and @leanahosea and I have found PFOA in tap water for @WATERSHED_i
2/
 ‘Forever chemicals’ found in drinking water sources across England
theguardian.com/environment/20…
We also tested effluent from a chemicals factory site which had extremely high levels of PFOA in it. 3/

Toxic substances from chemicals firm site found polluting protected rivertheguardian.com/environment/20…
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Oct 5, 2022
Lots of chest thumping about government slapping enormous (up to £250m) civil penalties on water companies for sewage pollution! It sounds shockingly like a good idea, but could it ever happen? And might it actually make things worse?

A few wee thoughts... 1/
At first glance, Ranil Jayawardena’s pledge to increase to the cap on civil penalties for water company pollution 1,000-fold, from £250k to £250m, appeared to be a big win for the environment. 2/
But the Environment Agency has already said it can't afford to fulfil its duties, it has pulled back from inspecting pollution incidents, it has fewer frontline officers, it's monitoring less, it's downgrading incidents, and it likes water firms to self-regulate... 3/
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Jan 31, 2022
Are the wheels coming off the Environment Agency?
A thread 1/8
At the end of last year, Environment Agency chief executive Sir James Bevan has sent a strongly worded message to staff warning them against speaking to the media. 2/8
endsreport.com/article/173532…
Whistleblowers promptly told ENDS that the agency has decided to ignore lower impact pollution incidents and leaked materials. 3/8
endsreport.com/article/173678…
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Apr 23, 2021
SEWAGE POLLUTION: The water sector is an “industry that seems frankly out of control”, which operates systems “designed to obfuscate and confuse” and regulators are “failing the public at every level” @CommonsEAC heard this wk. More choice quotes... (1/6)
endsreport.com/article/171383…
Prof Peter Hammond says water firms illegally polluting rivers "at least 10 times more" than the EA is identifying and prosecuting. 2/
Mogden sewage works in west London, the only treatment works with a volume-meter, spilled half a billion litres of raw sewage in 2015, an amount which swelled to 3.5bn litres last year. 3/
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