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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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Green battle lines drawn, Saltmarsh SSSI bulldozed, PLUS the professor of faith on guarding God's garden

60 hours 13 mins; June 05, 2024

The policies lost in the election wash-up, Labour's green mission PLUS the most PFAS-polluted town in England

37 mins; May 29, 2024

Bathing water baddies PLUS River Summit special ft. Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray, Philip Duffy and Angela Henry

59 mins; May 22, 2024

DEFRA vs OEP, the lost infringement cases, PLUS the UK's diverging green policy

39 mins; May 15, 2024

ULEZ upset averted, climate ‘clown show’ PLUS Dartmoor's sheepwrecked SSSIs

54 mins; May 08, 2024

Permitting regime ‘collapse’, ‘fake’ DRS promises, PLUS Goldsmith, Eustice and Stacey on the legacy of a landmark act

40 mins; May 01, 2024

Ex-minister on DEFRA's inner workings, where is the LUF? PLUS The EfW industry responds to Barclay's freeze

39 mins; April 24, 2024

Duffy's EfW dust-up, Wye's there a new champion? PLUS the floating Celtic Sea wind giant

31 mins; April 17, 2024

Barclay’s burner bother, beaver builders PLUS Tories driven batty by Natural England

36 mins; April 10, 2024

Thames Water turmoil, Ofwat has it large PLUS the kelp forests of Sussex

33 mins; April 03, 2024

Dartmoor's thorny SSSI plans, Ed's £28bn climate elephant, PLUS the bugs lost by net gain

37 mins; March 27, 2024

Ex-ministers' masks slip, watchdogs’ united front PLUS the lights that blind us

38 mins; March 20, 2024

The sounds of the underground, Hunt’s Cambridge credit punt, and the EA scores red

45 mins; March 14, 2024

Walleys' whiff gets watchdog whack, Ofwat's growing pains and climate tsar shambles

46 mins; March 07, 2024

Minette batters the regulators, EA chair‘s ‘uncomfortable’ PowerPoint slides PLUS pollution penalty perils

39 mins; February 28, 2024

Falcon snatchers, the burners blocking PM2.5 progress PLUS the next EU laws on the chopping block

45 mins; February 21, 2024

PopCons go potty, water boss bonus block PLUS, EU's afraid of the big bad wolf

32 mins; February 14, 2024

Landfills’ toxic secret, BNG metric meltdown and Wales gets a watchdog

39 mins; February 07, 2024

EA permit delays exposed, DEFRA rapped over water pollution, PLUS who's tapping England's rivers?

44 mins; January 31, 2024

Watchdog mauls DEFRA, EA compliance target controversy PLUS nutrient neutrality expert on the law

44 mins; January 24, 2024

Why oh Wye, climate watchdog goes starkers PLUS your green policy guide to the year ahead

38 mins; January 17, 2024

Sunak hits the skids, Gove's green agenda and pine martens triumph

30 mins; January 10, 2024

Christmas special: The year’s worst villains, biggest gaffes, and 2023’s top of the poops

31 mins; December 20, 2023

Call the COPs, the countdown to BNG, and DEFRA's smoke and mirrors air policy

43 mins; December 13, 2023

Bathing water stink, AONB or not to AONB and Suez lays waste to the EA

33 mins; December 06, 2023

EA shake-up scoop, climate COP-out, PLUS the nightmare nurdles choking the planet

45 mins; November 29, 2023

Fish justice, zombie power project purge PLUS Plantlife on net gain and grasslands

49 mins; November 22, 2023

Coffey quits, curtains for Curtin, and Barclay’s big brief

40 mins; November 15, 2023

Water framework fracas, the silent King's speech, and the Environment Act, two years on

46 mins; November 08, 2023

LURB sick, Wales' sorry sewage saga PLUS Fish Legal on how to win eco-battles

59 mins; November 01, 2023

Barcodes for big bags, Wales' sewage shocker PLUS mitigation expert on nutrient neutrality solutions

63 hours 22 mins; October 25, 2023

No scrubs, fire and rehire, and the unholy trinity of waste...

30 mins; October 18, 2023

Starmer's bulldozer blitz PLUS Natural Resources Wales' Steve Ormerod on water pollution

49 mins; October 11, 2023

Tories go bananas, net gain knock-back, and Scotland’s push to liquify the dead

37 mins; October 04, 2023

Seven deadly bins, Coffey’s complacency PLUS an interview with rewilder Ben Goldsmith

61 hours 38 mins; September 27, 2023

No LURB lost, junked food policy, and hen harriers flying high

35 mins; September 20, 2023

Watchdog bares its teeth, winds of change, and Europe's most wanted predator

38 mins; September 13, 2023

Regression row, LIAR-gate, and Rishi rearranges the deck chairs

52 mins; September 06, 2023

Gove's nitrates war, Scotland's hare cull and England's water woes

34 mins; August 30, 2023

Pollution penalty shootout, water voles let loose, PLUS international climate broker on finding consensus

49 mins; August 23, 2023

Rest in Greenpeace, nutrient numbers unpacked, and Starmer drama over clean air

37 mins; August 16, 2023

Inflation bites, Coffey's REUL retort, PLUS the lawyer who speaks for the trees

54 mins; August 09, 2023

North Sea black gold, net gain price tags and air pollution battles

36 mins; August 02, 2023

ULEZ roadblocks, Nutrients overload PLUS interview with Natural England's net gain tsar Nick White

63 hours 3 mins; July 26, 2023

Top of the poops, reintroductions row, and the EA gets new teeth

26 mins; July 19, 2023

Nutrients nightmare, forever pollution, and Starmer’s tree-hugger tirade

51 mins; July 12, 2023

Zac attack, Thames troubles, and they think it's REUL over

48 mins; July 05, 2023

Special episode: Interview with Environment Agency interim chief executive John Curtin

40 mins; June 28, 2023

‘Highland tigers’ and ‘devastating’ pollution, PLUS interview with Uplift’s Tessa Khan

31 mins; June 21, 2023

WILDERNESS: The Wounding of England's Last Great Wild Spaces

38 mins; June 14, 2023

Health and safety gone bad, sheep scraped Dartmoor and the man who blew the lid off the sewage scandal

31 mins; June 07, 2023

REUL bill battles, Green cities and wild boar livers

24 mins; May 31, 2023

Agencies ignored, Oxford’s glory, and Rewilding Britain's Alastair Driver on tackling rewilding myths

40 mins; May 25, 2023

Peat prosecution, Labour's leak, and REUL's sunset uplands

33 mins; May 17, 2023

The trees that toppled the Tories, Green Party gains, and Labour's EA vision

35 mins; May 10, 2023

Drought danger, sewage sanctions, and DEFRA’s dire straits

16 mins; May 03, 2023

Trade deal troubles and SSSI bulldozer baddie banged up

28 mins; April 26, 2023

OEP intervention, ‘hitchhiking’ bacteria and DEFRA’s transparency problem

23 mins; April 19, 2023

REUL Bill retreat, sparrowhawk down and sewage woes

27 mins; April 12, 2023

Sunak's Green Day, net gain metric 4.0 and EA chief's exit

29 mins; April 05, 2023

DRS disaster, dormice killings and surfing on sewage

40 mins; March 29, 2023

Watchdog walkouts, COMAH crisis, and inside Attenborough's Wild Isles

37 mins; March 21, 2023

Dark waters, shrew-eating spiders, and DEFRA's 'useless legacy'

42 mins; March 07, 2023

Shell sued, wood-burning worries, and DEFRA's dirty data

39 mins; February 21, 2023

Trash talk, acronym overload, and DEFRA’s sunset clause strife

43 mins; February 07, 2023

Divide and REUL, beaver breakout, and DEFRA’s ‘culture of delay’

32 mins; January 24, 2023

River target tussle, raptor reckoning, and the notorious BNG

40 mins; January 10, 2023

The heroes, villains and biggest gaffes of 2022

45 mins; December 20, 2022

Peer pressure, tidal power, and the government's pilloried poo plan

65 hours 43 mins; November 29, 2022

Forever chemicals, Bevan's goodbye and net zero heroes

36 mins; November 15, 2022

Phantom rules, tardy targets, and Thérèse Coffey's comeback

35 mins; November 01, 2022

Lord Heseltine interview, EA strikes and Labour's lacklustre green policies

57 mins; October 18, 2022

Jemima Clusterduck, Tory conference gossip and the Environment Agency's dirty secret

37 mins; October 04, 2022

SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon

30 mins; September 28, 2022

DEFRA's ministerial massacre, ENDS on film, and Charles the climate king

39 mins; September 21, 2022

Packham's provocation, Truss's triumph and how England's sewage hit Europe's fan

57 mins; September 06, 2022

Brexit shredders, freeport fears and the invasion of the spider crabs

41 mins; August 16, 2022

Feargal's fury, beaver fever and heatwave hellscapes

53 mins; August 02, 2022

Zombie government, octopus explosion and dodgy green goals

41 mins; July 12, 2022

Dirty dairy, polluting poultry and muck-spreading mayhem

32 mins; June 28, 2022

Rees-Mogg’s red tape battle, the return of the osprey, and England’s shrinking shoreline

36 mins; June 20, 2022

The lynx effect, pesky pesticides and rule-breaking farmers

42 mins; May 26, 2022

Biological annihilation, snail assault and 100 powerful people

38 mins; May 17, 2022

Missing bees, England's dirty bathing waters, and microplastics in make-up

36 mins; May 05, 2022

Ecocide, super quangos and Top of the Poops 2

36 mins; April 22, 2022

Beaver fever, dirty air, and chalk streams in crisis

33 mins; April 05, 2022

Ottergeddon, toxic toys and DEFRA's bonfire of the quangos

37 mins; March 22, 2022

Alien vs predator, toxic air and nature's drug problem

37 mins; March 08, 2022

Mysterious sea eagle deaths, toxic tap water and the UK's first climate refugees

35 mins; February 22, 2022

Dirty cities, banned pesticides, and could Henry VIII powers see green rules get the chop?

35 mins; February 08, 2022

Jaws of death, neutered watchdog and ignorance-based regulation

38 mins; January 25, 2022

Killer whale apocalypse, sheep-scraped hellscapes and England's ignored pollution

34 mins; January 12, 2022

Top of the poops: rewilding and eco colonialism, revenge of the chickens, and toxic tattoos

34 mins; December 07, 2021

Algal blooms of doom, the sewage scandal and underhand chemicals

32 mins; November 23, 2021

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