Eco Chamber
Chemical conundrum in the Cotswolds and watchdog’s farm pollution probe
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Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and take a forensic look at one of the deep-rooted environmental issues facing us today.
This week, ENDS journalists look at:
- How residents in the UK’s most known PFAS-polluted place are working with lawyers to investigate a first of its kind legal claim
- Why the Office for Environmental Protection believes that water pollution rules for farmers in England “may be unlawful”
- And the news-in-brief: the lowdown on DEFRA’s assessment of the effectiveness of biodiversity net gain exemptions; why pesticide usage data must now be made available to the public; and the chair of the water commission's plan to “restore trust” in the sector.
In this week’s deep dive, we reveal how a market town in the Cotswolds has a PFAS problem, with high levels of the forever chemicals discovered near land earmarked for hundreds of new homes and a primary school.
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