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. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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

How did the country's most problem ridden landfill end up in the ownership of the Crown Estate? Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out.. www.endsreport.com/article/1937...

Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support UN-led climate treaty process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

Great to see The Bureau of Investigative Journalism spotlighting my investigation into PFAS pollution in Bentham in The Spark, a newsletter that spotlights “stories from across the media and around the world that are changing the world for the better.” the-spark-tbij.beehiiv.com/p/forever-ch...

Labour MP Lorraine Beavers has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce products containing PFOA, a globally banned and carcinogenic chemical. www.endsreport.com/article/1937...

This makes wood burners collectively more dangerous than UK roads because wood burners are killing more people annually This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths www.theguardian.com/environment/...

15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year - result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions #airpollution www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I think that's one of the saddest things about this situation - things that ought to create health have been poisoned @pippaneill.bsky.social spoke to one person who felt terrible that veg they'd given to friends + family might have contained harmful chemicals

Stark to hear Rosamund Kissi-Debrah recall the final days of her daughters life - who died due to air pollution - on the same day the news broke that the government will not adopt WHO air quality standards, despite pledging to do so www.endsreport.com/article/1936...

An industry lobbyist is poised to lead chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social 3 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire. www.endsreport.com/article/1935...

A large industrial zone in Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!) "9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them" www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...

NEW: A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court with ‘no admission of liability’ by Angus Fire www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed! This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency. www.endsreport.com/article/1934...

Houses should never have been built’ near a PFAS factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates at @chemtrust.bsky.social fringe event at the Labour Party Conference. www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates. t.co/091gKI76dE

Labour Conference: The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Greenpeace has said, describing Boy Wasted podcast as a “prime example of this”. www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” after our Boy Wasted Podcast revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in recycling facilities in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination. www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

The panel, at 2pm on 28 September at the Staybridge Suites in Liverpool, features: Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management Join us!

🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference? On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social, will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling. Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️ solidaritycafe.com

🚨🎧📣🎙️Listen to the EcoChamber podcast to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and I discuss my investigation into a chemical company near Blackpool, which is producing products containing a carcinogenic & banned chemical and emitting it to air (It's free to listen!) www.endsreport.com/article/1933...

I'm looking forward to attending this event at the Labour Party Conference next week, where Lucy Taylor and @tesscolley.bsky.social will discuss our Boy Wasted podcast. The event will be hosted by Labour MP and Environmental Audit Committee member Barry Gardiner www.solidaritycafe.com

Boy Wasted is an “arresting and horrific insight into the link between consumption, waste and the loss of human life” - writes Daniel Dylan Wray in The Guardian. Listen to the full series via The ENDS Report Eco Chamber podcast feed. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Can an embattled government meet the great green tests of our time? For our new special report, we’ve asked top experts to predict what Labour’s environmental wins – and defeats – will be by the time of the next general election This is their verdict ⬇️

We’re living in a sacrifice zone. Anglo American has polluted the water and the air we breathe” says Luis Acevedo, the president of the El Melón farmers’ association. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

AGC Chemicals is currently at the centre of an investigation seeking to establish weather historic contamination poses a risk to health. My recent investigation reveals it appears to have known about the health risks to its workers almost 2 decades ago!! www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🚨Campaigners have called for the government to ban all plastic waste exports following a joint ENDS investigation revealed hundreds of boys and men have been killed in recycling factories in Turkey. Listen to the Boy Wasted podcast in full now ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🚨 A new @endsreport.com article reveals that the AGC Chemicals Plant is still producing the #PFAS, PFOA and has been aware of the risks to its workers for over 20 years.   🧪 PFOA is a globally banned, carcinogenic chemical.   Read more here 👉 buff.ly/8sQfBo8   #ForeverChemicals

AGC Chemicals, near Blackpool, is still producing products containing the globally banned chemical PFOA, and emitting this to the air For Georgia Elliot-Smith, of @fightingdirty.bsky.social, this issue is black and white "There should be no discussion here” www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

The UK's biggest export is waste. This is just one of the shocking things we discovered through working on the Boy Wasted podcast. Listen to the full series on the ENDS Report Eco Chamber podcast feed now www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

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Sam has been told not to eat home-grown food due to toxic chemicals in the soil Sam had a stroke at the age of 42, and has unusually high cholesterol levels “I believe that high cholesterol is linked with this chemical”, she says “Am I safe?” ⬇️⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air. 🧵

Alan, who recently found out that his beetroot had the highest level of PFOA of all of the vegetables tested by the council, tells me his biggest worry is that he might have unknowingly harmed his friends and family. Read my full investigation here ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

More than 200 boys and men have been killed or shredded in recycling factories in Turkey - a top destination for UK waste exports - in the last 10 years, a true-crime investigation has revealed. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Alan, who recently found out that his beetroot had the highest level of PFOA of all of the vegetables tested by the council, tells me his biggest worry is that he might have unknowingly harmed his friends and family. Read my full investigation here ⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Another Toxic Town scandal, crying out for action. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🔥Boy Wasted, a new global investigation and true-crime podcast, is now live on all streaming platforms🔥 By following the thread of the death of a young boy, this podcast reveals the shocking truth of the global plastic waste trade. Listen now! ⬇️⬇️ www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

PFAS manufacturers often argue some types are safer than others. But these emails reveal it's possible to produce a banned variety of PFAS as a by-product of making a legal variety +, whether it's the intended product or a waste product, it's still polluting. 4/4 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

Now information acquired by @fightingdirty.bsky.social + shared with @pippaneill.bsky.social reveals AGC may have been aware of PFAS contamination around the site for decades before reporting by Watershed brought this pollution to light. 3/4 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

When we found high levels of PFOA in the River Wyre near the plant's discharge pipe, AGC told us they no longer produced PFOA at the site, + any PFOA we'd found must have been a residue of historic use. 2/4 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

In emails shown to @endsreport.com, AGC Chemicals tells the EA they're producing internationally-banned, cancer-causing, PFOA, as a by-product of making another type of PFAS +, at their Lancashire plant, PFOA has been emitted to the air. 1/4 www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air. 🧵

A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. Boy Wasted - a new true-crime series - out next week. Subscribe to the Eco Chamber podcast now wherever you get your podcasts to get it in your feed.

I'm so proud to share the trailer for our new podcast series, Boy Wasted. A bale of plastic. A mystery body. A global investigation. This has been a harrowing project to work on but it is such an important story to tell. Stream the full series on the Eco Chamber podcast feed from September 16.

Thrilled & honoured to have made the #PPANextGen list of 30 rising stars for 2025 🙏 Extremely grateful to my editors @pippaneill.bsky.social and @jamiecarpenter.bsky.social for putting me forward - plus the hugely @endsreport.com team 💚