The Supreme Court has confirmed that public authorities must carry out an “appropriate assessment” for development proposals that may harm sites that are protected under the Habitat Regulations at all relevant stages of the planning process. ⬇️ endsreport.com/article/193693…

Scoop: I sent a public record request to the FTC for complaints mentioning ChatGPT. I got 200 back, but a few stood out. They described experiencing severe delusions, paranoia, and spiritual crises, and they attributed it to ChatGPT. Link in the reply: wired.com/story/ftc-comp…

…home to the Angus International Safety Group – locally known as Angus Fire – which, since the 1970s, has been producing firefighting foams containing PFAS at a factory near the town centre.

30/10/25. UK. Toxin levels in fish lead to calls for UK-wide ban on mercury dental fillings. More than 98% of fish and mussels tested in English waters contain mercury above EU safety limits theguardian.com/environment/20…

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support UN-led climate treaty process theguardian.com/environment/20…

How did the country's most problem ridden landfill end up in the ownership of the Crown Estate? Read Conor McGlone's investigation for ENDS Report to find out.. endsreport.com/article/193730…

Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated. theguardian.com/environment/20…

The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

The UK government has been accused of using 'Trumpian shock tactics' at a recent UN meeting and destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism - one of the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy endsreport.com/article/194095…

By compiling FOI data, government records and public sources, we located over 60,000 landfill and waste sites across Europe. Most were likely created before modern environmental regulations.

Because they were created before we had environmental rules, many older landfills have no lining, they don't have filtration systems for rainwater runoff, + there were no restrictions on what could go into them - think of lead acid batteries, old flypaper treated with arsenic.

AyrshireAlba 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Yes, there are many failings with landfill regulations - not least that as Pippa Neill has found, the filtration systems may actually be raising levels of PFOA 😬 share.google/o6sgHECLBPLfXU…

A research paper which concluded that the active substance glyphosate does not cause harm to humans has been formally retracted by the journal that originally published it. endseurope.com/article/194245…