BREAKING: The Office for Environmental Protection has found ‘deeply concerning’ failures in the government’s implementation of regulations designed to protect rivers

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The Thames Barrier protects 54 underground stations, 226 schools, & 13 hospitals which sit in the river's tidal flood zone - but w/ rising sea levels, what's the plan for keeping London safe?

Thames Barrier at 40: Can the EA keep holding back the flood?
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John Swinney has been appointed as Scotland's new first minister following the resignation of Humza Yousaf.

Here's what you need to know about Swinney's record on the environment ⬇️
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If you haven't yet, it's not too late to 🎧 listen to last week's episode of the #ECOChamber as we discuss:-
📜The ‘genuine collapse’ of Environment Agency's permitting regime.
🤥The ‘fake promises’ of a UK-wide deposit return scheme.
🎥And #LEGACY .

LISTEN➡️podfollow.com/ends

The European Commission has withdrawn two long-running legal complaints against the UK relating to its breach of EU water and air quality rules, but the Office for Environmental Protection has so far only committed to follow up on one of them 🌊⬇️
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DEFRA has been forced by the courts to concede that ministers unlawfully granted gamebird shooting licences in protected areas in 2023, but what exactly brought the case to light?

Catherine Early examines the evidence that was put before the court ⬇️
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A controversial ministerial decision to pause the issuing of new permits for waste incineration facilities has sparked a political row – but has also raised important questions...

David Burrows reports ⬇
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Thrilled to be shortlisted for best section editor at the British Society of Magazine Editors BSME talent awards! 🎉

That's alongside my A* ENDS Report colleagues Pippa Neill for best news writing, David Robinson for best designer, & our Eco Chamber pod James Agyepong-Parsons🌿

For the second time in less than two years, the High Court has ruled that the UK government’s climate strategy is unlawful ⬇️
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A multi-million pound legal case against Avara Foods and a new legal opinion on nature-related risks beg one question - is this the year Big Food gets its feet held to legal fire over environmental pollution? ⬇️
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The Environment Agency has launched a consultation on an updated programme of measures to restore a fly-fishing river in Yorkshire, as required by the High Court after a legal challenge brought by Fish Legal ⬇️
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🚨EXCLUSIVE: The *majority* of deadlines issued to farmers in the last four years to improve environmental performance have been missed..

..and over half (thousands) of those actions not completed on time related to water quality 🐔💩🐖

A quick 🧵
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'It is sometimes said that we don't have enough bite, we simply bark. I would dispute that'

OEP chair Dame Glenys Stacey spoke to ENDS about how the government has responded the watchdog’s advice...💡

ENDS subscribers can watch the full interview here ➡ endsreport.com/article/1870214

🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 60% of farm improvement actions agreed by the Environment Agency in the last four years were not completed on time, with half of those relating to water quality measures, data obtained by ENDS reveals ⬇️
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A combination of 'chronic' and 'shock' risks caused by the degradation of the natural world could lead to an impact on the UK's GDP greater than that experienced in the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, a report has warned 🚨
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10 factory farm corporations ‘produce more excrement than UK’s 10 largest cities’, says a Sustain + Friends of the Earth report

It also states half of the named companies have no publicly available strategy in place to manage the 💩 in their supply chain..
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The government’s position against the EU’s “shameful” challenge to England and Scotland’s sandeel fishing ban must be maintained, international nature NGOs have announced in a show of support for ministers ⬇️
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A court has thrown out an appeal case brought by the Scottish government over a recent ruling that found ministers had acted unlawfully in granting licences for scallop dredging and bottom-trawling ⬇️ Open Seas
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A major housing scheme on the edge of Cambridge that the Environment Agency had objected to over water supply concerns has been approved by planning minister Lee Rowley ⬇️
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'It is sometimes said that we don't have enough bite, we simply bark. I would dispute that'

OEP chair Dame Glenys Stacey spoke to ENDS about how the government has responded the watchdog’s advice...💡

ENDS subscribers can watch the full interview here ➡ endsreport.com/article/1870214