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Award-winning environmental journalist. News editor at @theendsreport. Formerly editor of @airqualitynews and @envjournal. Bylines in @guardian. DMs open 🌎✉️
May 24 20 tweets 4 min read
🧵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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Nov 18, 2022 9 tweets 5 min read
🚨 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".