❌ Despite strong cross-party support and passionate speeches from MPs, the Planning and Infrastructure Bill committee voted against the Chalk Stream Protection amendment. Chalk streams are one of our most special habitats and yet we are failing them.

⚽️🏃‍♀️Defra’s latest report shows artificial sports pitches are the #1 source of intentionally added microplastic pollution in the UK. The EU is banning microplastic infill. Why isn't the UK? Here’s what you need to know in our summary blog👇 🔗 fidra.org.uk/news/pitches-n…

🚨Defra confirms: artificial sports pitches are the UK’s biggest source of intentionally added #microplastic pollution AND 💩Reducing the application of sewage sludge to farmland can help target microplastic emissions Blogs 🔗 fidra.org.uk/news/pitches-n… 🔗 fidra.org.uk/news/intention…

One of the chemical industry's chief arguments against regulating #PFAS is their role in life-saving medical technology. Today, 150 healthcare providers pushed back. Medicine shouldn't be used as an "excuse" for continuing to make these dangerous chemical, they wrote.

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!🚨: Landmark victory for the River Severn and turning point for polluting factory farming across the UK We’ve just overturned the approval of a 200,000-bird factory farm in the High Court, a major legal victory against Shropshire Council. THIS IS HUGE! This

You can repair a plane. You can replace a broken window. But you can’t bring back the dead. We must defend the right to protest. Solidarity with Palestine Action 🇵🇸

NEW: UK climate advisers now "more optimistic" net-zero goals can be met 🎯Net-zero "possible" + "good for economy" 📉CO2 halved vs 1990 📈More "credible" policies 🚘🏡EV/heat pumps soaring But… ⚡"Critical" to cut power prices ✈️Flight CO2 "risk" 1/9

An Italian court has sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS 'forever chemicals' france24.com/en/live-news/2…

Defra has announced before Steve Reed speaks at groundswell that it is capping its capital grants programme for doing things like restoring hedgerows and fixing water quality at £35,000 per farm. There was previously no cap to allow for large projects to be funded.

Proposed “pro-growth” changes to chemicals regulations in England may create more UK-EU divergence. CHEM Trust has said that they are "deeply concerned" by the proposals and said it could risk the circulation of harmful products. endsreport.com/article/192463…

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 After obtaining reams of internal docs, I have a new story out revealing how govt has sat on plans to tighten rules letting water companies SELL sewage sludge fertiliser contaminated with PFAS & microplastics. Read it in The Guardian, and.. theguardian.com/environment/20…

For years, the Environment Agency advised ministers sewage sludge could be spreading toxic waste & microplastics over farmland. For years they were ignored. Tess Colley writes: share.google/mpssPq9OOP8HXY…

The Env Agency cancelled 10,000 water inspections due to staff shortages This included investigations into unsustainable water abstraction in the North West Less than a month after the pause came into effect, the EA declared a drought in the North West endsreport.com/article/192670…

Fifteen penguins are captive in London Aquarium's basement enclosure without fresh air or daylight. But campaigners are on a mission to #Freethe15 🐧 Children led a protest outside the Sea Life centre this morning.

221 MPs, from 9 parties, have sent a joint letter to the Prime Minister & Foreign Secretary urging them to recognise Palestine as a state now

Heathrow is submitting its plans for a 3rd runway today. It’ll mean 15,000 losing their homes, more noise for 2 million Londoners, the government missing its climate change targets & inevitably Heathrow coming for tax payer subsidies.For all these reasons,say no to the 3rd runway

Just to give you some idea of the impact of Heathrow’s plans for a 3rd runway, this is Harmondsworth village, one of the 4 Heathrow villages that will be wiped off the face of the earth by Heathrow.15,000 people will lose their homes & community to profit a foreign owned company.

Allotments. Social clubs. Swimming pools. Public toilets. Parks. The access to public spaces we once enjoyed are gradually being ripped away and sold off in front of our eyes. All in the name of austerity.

The first dataset on background PFAS levels in shallow soils in England has been produced in a new study co-authored by the Environment Agency. The study found PFAS to be present in all new and archived samples. endsreport.com/article/192778…

In 1974, the president of DuPont admitted that many commonly used plastic products cannot be recycled due to their complex chemical structures. This is the earliest evidence of admission that many plastic products cannot be recycled DeSmog desmog.com/2025/08/05/mad…