🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air.

🧵 In Thornton-Cleveleys, residents within a one kilometre radius of the AGC Chemicals Plant have been told to take a "precautionary approach" to eating home-grown vegetables due to elevated levels of PFOA, a globally banned and carcinogenic chemical, in the soil.

Individuals living in the shadow of a PFAS chemical plant in Thornton-Cleveleys are concerned about the impact that pollution in the surrounding area may be having on their health.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/… Last year 6,000 individuals were advised not to eat home-grown fruit and vegetables over concerns about the levels of a potentially carcinogenic substance in the ground near to the plant.

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The @CommonsEAC has today lunched an inquiry into PFAS forever chemicals

It says this comes after news coverage has exposed the level of problems with PFAS' in the UK

@TheENDSReport has reported extensively on PFAS pollution

Here is a reminder of some of our key stories🧵⬇️ 1. Last year in a two-part investigation I exposed that the small Yorkshire town of Bentham is the most known PFAS-polluted place in the UK. The town is home to firefighting foam manufacturer Angus Fire.

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In a 2003 report, which was hidden from the public until now, consultants working for the Environment Agency concluded that the PFAS 'forever chemicals' found in firefighting foams pose a ‘chronic threat’ to the environment

Here's why this matters

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theguardian.com/environment/ar… The report was intended for the formulation of policy 'in order to minimise environmental harm'

However, despite these warnings, more than 20 years later and the government has only just begun the process of restricting these chemicals in foams

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The Environment Agency has published new amended figures for the historical hydrogen sulphide (H2S) emissions from the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill.

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endsreport.com/article/188574… For those not already familiar, the landfill, located in Staffordshire, has become notorious in recent years following repeated complaints from residents about foul smells, which have resulted in court cases, EA enforcement action, and a criminal investigation.

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In May, my story revealed that the small town of Bentham, Yorkshire is the most known PFAS polluted place in the UK.

The town is home to firefighting foam manufacturing company, Angus Fire.

🔥 Here's what happened next...

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theguardian.com/environment/ar… Soon after the story was published, 'forever chemicals' were on the agenda of the Bentham Town Council meeting.

The meeting chair said that 10 members of the town council had met with 3 members of Angus Fire to discuss the issue.

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EXCLUSIVE: The parent company of the firm located in the most PFAS polluted place in the UK has spent £5 million defending 9,000 PFAS-related legal cases in the US dating back to 2016.

But how did it end up here? And is the worse yet to come?

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endsreport.com/article/188266… In May, I revealed that the highest levels of PFAS pollution recorded in the UK has been found in Bentham, Yorkshire

The town is home to firefighting foam manufacturing company Angus Fire.

Angus Fire discharged PFAS to the sewer in Bentham until 2020.

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🧵GOD'S OWN DARK WATERS: Exposing how a rural Yorkshire market town became the most PFAS polluted place in the country...

endsreport.com/article/187384… Bentham, a small town just west of the Yorkshire Dales, is home to Angus Fire - a company which has been manufacturing PFAS containing firefighting foams since the 1970s at its site in Bentham.

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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: 🚨 Despite over 8,000 complaints recorded, NO local authority with a smoke control area has issued a fine for smoke pollution in the past five years.

My investigation for @TheENDSReport reveals the state of the broken enforcement system

endsreport.com/article/180558… One resident who lives in a Smoke Control Area in the affluent London Borough of Kingston Upon Thames told me that smoke pollution has "ruined her life".

Yet she told me that when she raised the concerns with the council "they were very dismissive".