Eco Chamber

Silent night: net gain ‘wounded’ in winter overhaul

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government has announced that the flagship nature policy, biodiversity net gain, is set to see substantial revisions in 2026 with development...

Access Denied: Does the environment sector have a problem with class?

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode, we investigate the representation of working class voices in the UK’s environment sector, reveal exclusive ENDS analysis on the ind...

Starmer goes nuclear on 'fundamentally misguided environmental regulations'

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The economist John Fingleton has published his recommendations to streamline planning laws for the development of UK nuclear power – and they could ...

Environmental Improvement Plan makes landfall – but Starmer M.I.A

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week the government published its long-awaited Environmental Improvement plan. The report is intended to lay out how the government will deliver ...

COP, out: Climate summit key takeaways as UK budget looms

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Climate negotiations at COP30 in Belém, Brazil have come to an end. On this week’s podcast, ECO Chamber special guest Dr Timo Leiter from the ...

Planning Bill ping-pongs as waste mountain piles up

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is nearing the end of its controversial passage in the House of Lords, with NGO lobby groups trying to come up wi...

Mitigation hierarchy hijinks in Planning Bill final furlong

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Planning and Infrastructure Bill is nearing the end of its controversial passage in the House of Lords, but a new last-minute amendment has caused...

EA comes out swinging as Lords slam waste crime 'incompetence’

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Waste crime costs England's economy around £1 billion a year in damages, but a new inquiry has levelled accusations of “incompetency” at the Envi...

Nutrient neutrality gets legal 'Dyno-Rod' as Planning Bill looms

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For years, a battle over nutrient neutrality has been raging in the courts. This came to a head in the Supreme Court this month. On this wee...

Uncloaked: Labour targets planning ‘traitors’ as Reform rages at solar

22 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In May, Reform UK took control of Lincolnshire County Council - a region set to become home to  the UK’s largest solar farm.. With local o...

Flooding: Is the UK’s most frequent natural disaster Labour’s ‘build, baby, build’ blindspot?

15 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government wants to ‘build, baby, build’ 1.5 million homes before the turn of the decade but could flooding scupper its ambitions? Listen to t...

Party’s over as Tories target climate law, ‘carbon taxes’ and DEFRA’s agencies

08 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, ENDS Report’s news editor Pippa Neill speaks with ECO Chamber host James Agyepong-Parsons from the Conservative Party’s conference in M...

‘Build, baby, build’: Labour Party Conference red hats, red tape - and green nerves

01 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The government says it wants to “streamline planning rules” to kickstart the building of three “new towns” and a new environment secretary has...

Reap what you sow: Lancashire's toxic town - exposed

24 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Boy Wasted: What happens next?

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Boy Wasted - Episode 3: Wasted Lives

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this finale episode, the team asks a disturbing question: what if there is not just one body, but hundreds? As the team join the dots bet...

Boy Wasted - Episode 2: The Boss

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

It's a case that doesn’t make any sense: a boy's body found shredded in a bale of plastic, kept entirely secret. The team begin investigating the pe...

Boy Wasted - Episode 1: The Body

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When a mystery body of a boy is found in a bale of recycled plastic in Turkey, a team of investigative journalists decide to work out what happened. T...

Reform UK jamboree hands mic to climate denial as Starmer shuffles the deck

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Coming soon: Boy Wasted

10 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

There's a concrete yard with piles of plastic, and lying on the ground is the body of a boy - grotesquely ripped apart.  Who was he? And what really...

Sweet nothings: What hot fudge sundaes have to do with a PFAS lobbying push

03 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

No birdie for golfing billionaire as watchdog bristles at golf course plans

27 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

The sky high PFAS levels revealed at England's airports

20 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

High seas for UK seabirds as world's 'biggest' wind farm greenlit

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Watchdog barks as biodiversity net gain foundations shake

06 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Summer of green discontent? Reform UK councils make net zero moves, Corbyn stakes eco claims

30 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

KAPOW! Ofwat whacked as new water super regulator rises

23 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Toxic sludge: How the government ignored Environment Agency pleas for reform

16 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Troubled Waters: The hidden river pollutants being brought to light

10 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Farming rules or does water? DEFRA faces new legal challenge

09 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

The force awakens? Tory fears over Natural England's 'new authoritarian empire'

02 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, ENDS journalists are joined by Richard Broadbent, an environmental lawyer and director at Freeths LLP, as they review Natural England’s p...

The Industrial Strategy: Will it really 'power Britain’s future'?

25 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Spending Review run-down: DEFRA cuts and nuclear boom

18 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

High seas for bottom-trawling and Planning Bill amendments

11 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Less gain, more pain? Biodiversity net gain reform run-down

04 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

The DEFRA strategy left on the shelf after seven years of work

28 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Internal SOS for DEFRA environment plan revealed plus Starmer’s Brexit ‘reset’

21 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Whose law is it anyway? Deep dive as Planning Bill comes under pressure

14 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Farage declares war on ‘woke’ climate jobs, puffins party as sandeels saved

07 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Natural England chief's 'epic misunderstanding' and historic landfill headache

30 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Unplanned consequences? Planning Bill steams ahead and British Steel scoop

23 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Down but not out? Greening Britain’s steel and Gove’s return

16 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

Trump tariff turbulence meets UK net zero

09 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

Bees saved from the bonfire? DEFRA review recommends red tape revolution

02 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

Road run-off rage as DEFRA braces for budget cuts

26 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

Eight legs, 15,000 homes and an action plan

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

EA's hazardous staffing crisis and nature levy lurches forward

12 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

DEFRA frees the beavers and fresh Walleys Quarry woes

05 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories, and bring you up to speed on the latest development...

God’s Own Dark Waters - Exposing a chemical scandal: Part 2

28 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A toxic scandal runs through a small town in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? In the second part of God’s Own Dark Wate...

God’s Own Dark Waters - Exposing a chemical scandal: Part 1

26 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A toxic scandal runs through a small town in North Yorkshire - if you pull the thread, where will it lead? ENDS Report investigates.For more than a ye...

Reed to rewire DEFRA amid ammonia accounting tricks

19 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Number 10 poops BNG’s party, and AI’s thirsty footprint

12 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Fights over farmland and Heathrow déjà vu

05 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Starmer’s fish disco flap and bees buzzing after Cruiser SB crushed

29 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Trump’s onslaught of orders and Reeves’ regulation attack

22 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Lynx let loose and landfill laggards

15 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

Sir Keir’s regulatory Christmas cracker and green gongs for beekeepers

08 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK’s biggest green news stories and bring you up to speed on the latest developments...

ECO CHAMBER CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: The big green round-up of 2024

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Labour's most wanted: bats and newts cop the blame for the housing crisis

11 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Has the EA finally stopped the stink at Walleys Quarry?

04 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

‘Tractor tax’ troubles and deposit return scheme disarray

27 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Access Denied: The environment sector’s problem with race

22 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

According to some estimates, the environment sector is among the least diverse profession in the UK, second only to agriculture. The latest ...

Chemical conundrum in the Cotswolds and watchdog’s farm pollution probe

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Souped-up landfills, welly wars, and HS2’s £100m bat ‘shed’

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

DEFRA’s Budget blues and will Reeves’ raid ‘ruin’ the countryside?

06 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Big carbon budgets, the new PRO waste squad PLUS the DRS glass ceilings that won't shatter

30 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

DEFRA’s growth mindset, sewage spills into court and EfW fighting ‘dirty’

23 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Starmer's red tape rampage rings alarm bells for nature

16 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What were the regulation-slashing announcements in Sir Keir Starmer's speech, and do they signal a war on nature? Who is the 'nature voice' in the gov...

Forbidden fruit, DEFRA’s growing pains, and the true cost of offshore wind

09 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Toxic shock: the nasties lurking in the sewage sludge being spread on UK fields

02 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Labour conference special: Passport controls, DEFRA ‘captured’, and farming budget fracas

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

PFAS price tag revealed, curtains for Cumbria coal mine, and the true cost of nationalising our water

18 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Sewage fat cats face the clink, net gain loopholes and Labour's 'reckless' solar expansion

11 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Highways from hell: how toxic run-off from roads is poisoning our waterways

04 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Airport expansion exasperation, sewage sludge time bomb, and the airline rapped over ‘misleading’ green claims

28 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The cyanide spill that closed a canal, water guzzling golf courses PLUS the UK-EU chemical policy chasm

21 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The bat police, the EA’s pension pot problem, and Miliband’s solar ‘error’

14 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Rat summer, fresh PFAS revelations PLUS Labour's planning revolution

07 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The Tories' toxic pesticide, England's over-abstraction baddies PLUS the swimworthy rivers of Swiss cities

31 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The supersized King's Speech PLUS The Wildlife Trusts' CEO on housing, Celtic rainforests and Labour's vision

24 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Miliband’s solar power play, Ofwat gives? PLUS The greenest cities in England

17 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Labour landslide: who’s in, who’s out PLUS Reeves revs up building blitz

10 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Fibreglass-filled oysters, the new cow tax PLUS the general election showdown for nature

03 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Supreme Court strikes down oil, nature's protest PLUS what happens when NGOs get too close to big business

26 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

MAYDAY: The forgotten poison in our skies

20 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s taken nearly four decades for a global phase out of leaded petrol, light aircraft still use fuel containing lead to keep flying their planes. T...

Manifesto magic tricks, Reform’s revenge PLUS the carbon blowouts that could break our skies

19 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The highways from hell killing our waterways PLUS the latest general election green policy pledges

12 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Green battle lines drawn, Saltmarsh SSSI bulldozed, PLUS the professor of faith on guarding God's garden

05 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

The policies lost in the election wash-up, Labour's green mission PLUS the most PFAS-polluted town in England

29 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Bathing water baddies PLUS River Summit special ft. Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray, Philip Duffy and Angela Henry

22 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Paul Whitehouse, Feargal Sharkey, The Crown’s Jim Murray... This week's episode, recorded from the UK River Summit, features the rockstars of the wa...

DEFRA vs OEP, the lost infringement cases, PLUS the UK's diverging green policy

15 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

ULEZ upset averted, climate ‘clown show’ PLUS Dartmoor's sheepwrecked SSSIs

08 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

Permitting regime ‘collapse’, ‘fake’ DRS promises, PLUS Goldsmith, Eustice and Stacey on the legacy of a landmark act

01 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

Ex-minister on DEFRA's inner workings, where is the LUF? PLUS The EfW industry responds to Barclay's freeze

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Why does Trudy Harrison think DEFRA has a problem with the office for environmental protection and project delivery? Where is the missing Land Use Fra...

Duffy's EfW dust-up, Wye's there a new champion? PLUS the floating Celtic Sea wind giant

17 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What's in the River Wye Action Plan? Why did the EA chief warn ministers about pausing waste incineration permits? And how big will the world's larges...

Barclay’s burner bother, beaver builders PLUS Tories driven batty by Natural England

10 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

Thames Water turmoil, Ofwat has it large PLUS the kelp forests of Sussex

03 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 en...

Dartmoor's thorny SSSI plans, Ed's £28bn climate elephant, PLUS the bugs lost by net gain

27 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Ex-ministers' masks slip, watchdogs’ united front PLUS the lights that blind us

20 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

The sounds of the underground, Hunt’s Cambridge credit punt, and the EA scores red

14 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...