Steve Reed OBE MP Steve Reed MP has been appointed Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Defra UK.

Huge congrats to Pippa Neill, News Editor at ENDS Report, for winning a 2024 PPA Next Gen Award! 🎉 Her investigative work is driving real-world change, and we’re so proud to see her recognised as a rising star. 👏

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Seven years after being ordered to act by the European Court of Justice, the British overseas territory of Gibraltar is continuing to discharge a million tonnes of wastewater directly into the sea each year, putting marine life at risk and creating a diplomatic headache...⬇️

EXCLUSIVE: The Environment Agency was warned about the 'chronic threat' of PFAS ‘forever chemicals' in firefighting foams in 2003, 20 years before it started to regulate them, a secret document has revealed Read my latest story in the Guardian theguardian.com/environment/ar…

An unpublished document I’ve obtained has revealed there could be around 10,000 PFAS contaminated sites in England & cleaning this up could cost billions 💷 Published in The Times and The Sunday Times - with/thanks to the amazing Adam Vaughan - and ENDS Report ⬇️ thetimes.com/article/7c15b7…

🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨 Sewage sludge fertiliser sold to farmers by water companies contains a banned ‘forever chemical’ at levels in excess of those considered safe in emerging science, a months-long ENDS Report investigation I've done has revealed ➡️endsreport.com/article/188941…

Never thought journalism would lead me to be a published author in an academic journal! Working with Dr Dave Megson, our research on how decontaminating landfill waste is creating and increasing banned PFAS chemicals has been published in Frontiers - Environmental Science frontiersin.org/journals/water…

🚨 ENDS Power List 2025 has just opened for nominations 🚨 Who are the UK’s most impactful environmental professionals and politicians? ⚡️ Whose work do you think we should champion this year?🌟 Let us know! The list closes for entries on 31 January⬇️ endsreport.com/article/190128…

🚨BREAKING 🚨 ENDS Report's award-winning investigative reporter and news editor Pippa Neill talks to Channel 4 News about how she exposed the 'forever chemical' problem at Bentham, the UK's most known PFAS-polluted town📽️

🎧 NEW PODCAST EPISODE What does the Commission’s ‘omnibus’ package mean for EU green policy? Why are conservatives and green groups at loggerheads over accusations of lobbying? Listen to ENDS Europe’s new podcast, the Green Room, to find out ⬇️ endseurope.com/article/190598…

A toxic scandal runs through the small town of Bentham in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? 🧪 God’s Own Dark Waters - an ENDS Report podcast - will be coming to all major streaming platforms soon. Stay tuned… 🎧

🚨OUT NOW🚨 New investigative podcast special God's Own Dark Waters reveals how Bentham in Yorkshire came to be polluted with the highest known levels of ‘forever chemicals’ in the UK. Stream the first part of the two episode ECO Chamber series now ➡️ pod.fo/e/2b22ae

🧪 No river in England is in ‘good’ chemical health, according to the latest official assessment, with numerous toxic chemicals now ‘ubiquitous’ in the aquatic environment. ☣️ Register below for our upcoming webinar on the emerging threats to prepare for – and the solutions

“We don't understand the pollution and we're doing nothing about it” 📹Joanna Bradley This Thursday, ENDS will be showing exclusive footage and hosting a live webinar on the lesser-known pollutants choking England’s rivers 🌊 Register for free ➡️ends-report.wavecast.io/dead-in-the-wa…

A shocking investigation by Tess Colley and Jamie Carpenter has revealed that over 250 high risk outfalls, which channel polluted run-off containing toxic metals and microplastics from roads into waterways, are within striking distance of protected sites endsreport.com/article/191141…

Lead, mercury, PAHs & arsenic: ENDS Report dives into the toxic gunk that is road runoff pollution in a fantastic, free-to-view, webinar featuring Joanna Bradley & Tess Colley. A must watch: ends-report.wavecast.io/dead-in-the-wa…

The latest ECO Chamber podcast is out ⚡ This week the team is joined by RSK Wilding's legal counsel Alexa Culver to unpick the implications of the controversial Planning Bill and its legal impact on the UK's international obligations... Tune in now 🎧 endsreport.com/article/191794…

NEW: In an impassioned 30-min interview, I spoke to Hannah Bourne-Taylor, the 'Lady Godiva of swifts', on what her efforts to save the ancient creatures reveal about who the decision-makers in govt are, and why passion is a ‘derogatory’ term in Parliament.. 👉endsreport.com/1922369