Eco Chamber
Episodes
Walleys' whiff gets watchdog whack, Ofwat's growing pains and climate tsar shambles
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team enters the ECO Chamber to discuss the UK's biggest green news stories, as well as taking a forensic look at one of...
Minette batters the regulators, EA chair‘s ‘uncomfortable’ PowerPoint slides PLUS pollution penalty perils
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Who's taking over the National Farmers' Union now their leader Minette Batters is gone? Is the EA's chair making enemies with farmers? And why are som...
Falcon snatchers, the burners blocking PM2.5 progress PLUS the next EU laws on the chopping block
21 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why does it matter if I buy a new wood burner for my home? Are we losing all our ties to EU regulation? And why would anyone want to launder falcons?E...
PopCons go potty, water boss bonus block PLUS, EU's afraid of the big bad wolf
14 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are left extremists really taking over the environmental agenda, according to the former prime minister Liz Truss? Will the new powers for the water r...
Landfills’ toxic secret, BNG metric meltdown and Wales gets a watchdog
07 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Should the Environment Agency know where landfills are leaching poisonous PFAS chemicals into the natural environment? Why is biodiversity net ga...
EA permit delays exposed, DEFRA rapped over water pollution, PLUS who's tapping England's rivers?
31 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Should a waste business really have to choose between going out of business or working outside of the law as it waits for an environmental permit? And...
Watchdog mauls DEFRA, EA compliance target controversy PLUS nutrient neutrality expert on the law
24 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Why on earth would EA staff be directed to stop inspecting waste sites? Is the OEP going to start legal proceedings against DEFRA? What on earth ...
Why oh Wye, climate watchdog goes starkers PLUS your green policy guide to the year ahead
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How many homes are really held up by nutrients pollution in England? When is Chris Stark stepping down and why have his contemporaries not been replac...
Sunak hits the skids, Gove's green agenda and pine martens triumph
10 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Which Conservative politician stepped down on climate issues? Why is the New Forest cool for mustelids? And how is Gove looking to change the planning...
Christmas special: The year’s worst villains, biggest gaffes, and 2023’s top of the poops
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Which politician was behind the biggest green gaffe in 2023? Who was the year’s worst villain? And which of the water companies was top of the poops...
Call the COPs, the countdown to BNG, and DEFRA's smoke and mirrors air policy
13 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What could a re-vamped civil sanction scheme mean for waste water companies? Why has a suite of new draft net gain texts left campaigners worried abou...
Bathing water stink, AONB or not to AONB and Suez lays waste to the EA
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are our bathing waters in England getting worse? Why does it matter that Suez has won a legal win against the Environment Agency? And the government h...
EA shake-up scoop, climate COP-out, PLUS the nightmare nurdles choking the planet
29 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How is the Environment Agency planning to reorganise its regulatory functions? Why did the UAE COP28 lead know about the UK prime minister’s net zer...
Fish justice, zombie power project purge PLUS Plantlife on net gain and grasslands
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is the government making plans to tackle the zombie grid apocalypse? And what happens now anglers have caught DEFRA and the EA in the courts? List...
Coffey quits, curtains for Curtin, and Barclay’s big brief
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This week's cabinet reshuffle posed plenty of big questions. What are the implications of Therese Coffey's departure from DEFRA? Who exactly is Steve ...
Water framework fracas, the silent King's speech, and the Environment Act, two years on
08 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Are we really diverging from EU rules on water? What was missing from the King's speech? And what did the Environment Act ever do for me? Find out on ...
LURB sick, Wales' sorry sewage saga PLUS Fish Legal on how to win eco-battles
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Welsh Water in hot water... again? What has LURB got to do with me? Find out on this week's Eco Chamber.Every week, the ENDS team runs down the...
Barcodes for big bags, Wales' sewage shocker PLUS mitigation expert on nutrient neutrality solutions
25 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why is Welsh Water in hot water? Why does my bin bag need a digital barcode? Find out on this week's Eco Chamber.Every week, the ENDS team runs down t...
No scrubs, fire and rehire, and the unholy trinity of waste...
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does Labour present a threat to precious scrubland as much as wet wipes threaten out coastlines? Find out on this week's Eco Chamber. Every week, the ...
Starmer's bulldozer blitz PLUS Natural Resources Wales' Steve Ormerod on water pollution
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How will Labour's plan to build, build, build impact the UK's natural environment? Does it matter that they don't have a plan for nature? Listen to th...
Tories go bananas, net gain knock-back, and Scotland’s push to liquify the dead
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why have wonky bananas made it onto the Conservatives' agenda? Why has net gain been pushed back? What do we now know about the state of the UK's natu...
Seven deadly bins, Coffey’s complacency PLUS an interview with rewilder Ben Goldsmith
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does it matter that the PM Rishi Sunak has deferred environmental policies and railed against the implementation of seven bins? Who thinks the env...
No LURB lost, junked food policy, and hen harriers flying high
20 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does it matter that the House of Lords have put down controversial environment-related amendments to the Levelling-up and Regeneration Bill? How c...
Watchdog bares its teeth, winds of change, and Europe's most wanted predator
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why does the Office for Environmental Protection believe that three public bodies may have failed to comply with environmental laws with regard t...
Regression row, LIAR-gate, and Rishi rearranges the deck chairs
06 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why did the RSPB brand government ministers 'liars' over their plan to axe nutrient neutrality rules, only to later apologise? What does Labour's late...
Gove's nitrates war, Scotland's hare cull and England's water woes
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Pollution penalty shootout, water voles let loose, PLUS international climate broker on finding consensus
23 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Rest in Greenpeace, nutrient numbers unpacked, and Starmer drama over clean air
16 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Inflation bites, Coffey's REUL retort, PLUS the lawyer who speaks for the trees
09 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
North Sea black gold, net gain price tags and air pollution battles
02 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
ULEZ roadblocks, Nutrients overload PLUS interview with Natural England's net gain tsar Nick White
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Top of the poops, reintroductions row, and the EA gets new teeth
19 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How has the Environment Agency graded water companies’ performance in its latest annual assessment? Why has a decision to approve a huge offshore wi...
Nutrients nightmare, forever pollution, and Starmer’s tree-hugger tirade
12 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Zac attack, Thames troubles, and they think it's REUL over
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Does Zac Goldsmith's criticism of Rishi Sunak's green credentials rings true? is it REUL over now that the Retained EU Law Bill has cleared the Common...
Special episode: Interview with Environment Agency interim chief executive John Curtin
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
‘Highland tigers’ and ‘devastating’ pollution, PLUS interview with Uplift’s Tessa Khan
21 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
WILDERNESS: The Wounding of England's Last Great Wild Spaces
14 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Health and safety gone bad, sheep scraped Dartmoor and the man who blew the lid off the sewage scandal
07 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
REUL bill battles, Green cities and wild boar livers
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Agencies ignored, Oxford’s glory, and Rewilding Britain's Alastair Driver on tackling rewilding myths
25 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Peat prosecution, Labour's leak, and REUL's sunset uplands
17 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
The trees that toppled the Tories, Green Party gains, and Labour's EA vision
10 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Drought danger, sewage sanctions, and DEFRA’s dire straits
03 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
Trade deal troubles and SSSI bulldozer baddie banged up
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories across the UK and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmenta...
OEP intervention, ‘hitchhiking’ bacteria and DEFRA’s transparency problem
19 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facin...
REUL Bill retreat, sparrowhawk down and sewage woes
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facin...
Sunak's Green Day, net gain metric 4.0 and EA chief's exit
05 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facin...
DRS disaster, dormice killings and surfing on sewage
29 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facin...
Watchdog walkouts, COMAH crisis, and inside Attenborough's Wild Isles
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every week, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues facin...
Dark waters, shrew-eating spiders, and DEFRA's 'useless legacy'
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Shell sued, wood-burning worries, and DEFRA's dirty data
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Trash talk, acronym overload, and DEFRA’s sunset clause strife
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Divide and REUL, beaver breakout, and DEFRA’s ‘culture of delay’
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
River target tussle, raptor reckoning, and the notorious BNG
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
The heroes, villains and biggest gaffes of 2022
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Peer pressure, tidal power, and the government's pilloried poo plan
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Forever chemicals, Bevan's goodbye and net zero heroes
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Phantom rules, tardy targets, and Thérèse Coffey's comeback
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Lord Heseltine interview, EA strikes and Labour's lacklustre green policies
18 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Jemima Clusterduck, Tory conference gossip and the Environment Agency's dirty secret
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon
28 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this special podcast version of ENDS's new documentary SEVERN: The poisoning of Britain's Amazon, we look at some of the pollution problems facing...
DEFRA's ministerial massacre, ENDS on film, and Charles the climate king
21 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Packham's provocation, Truss's triumph and how England's sewage hit Europe's fan
06 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Brexit shredders, freeport fears and the invasion of the spider crabs
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Feargal's fury, beaver fever and heatwave hellscapes
02 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories and takes a forensic look at one of the more deep-rooted environmental issues ...
Zombie government, octopus explosion and dodgy green goals
12 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shares the latest policy gossip, and takes a forensic look at one of the more...
Dirty dairy, polluting poultry and muck-spreading mayhem
28 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Rees-Mogg’s red tape battle, the return of the osprey, and England’s shrinking shoreline
20 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
The lynx effect, pesky pesticides and rule-breaking farmers
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Biological annihilation, snail assault and 100 powerful people
17 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Missing bees, England's dirty bathing waters, and microplastics in make-up
05 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Ecocide, super quangos and Top of the Poops 2
22 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Beaver fever, dirty air, and chalk streams in crisis
05 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Ottergeddon, toxic toys and DEFRA's bonfire of the quangos
22 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Alien vs predator, toxic air and nature's drug problem
08 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Mysterious sea eagle deaths, toxic tap water and the UK's first climate refugees
22 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Dirty cities, banned pesticides, and could Henry VIII powers see green rules get the chop?
08 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The ENDS Report team reveals England's filthiest and cleanest cities, explores why the wheels are coming off the environmental regulators, and looks a...
Jaws of death, neutered watchdog and ignorance-based regulation
25 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Killer whale apocalypse, sheep-scraped hellscapes and England's ignored pollution
12 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...
Top of the poops: rewilding and eco colonialism, revenge of the chickens, and toxic tattoos
07 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode the ENDS Report team explores:Whether rewilding can be eco colonialism in disguiseHow recyclable waste ends up burned or in landf...
Algal blooms of doom, the sewage scandal and underhand chemicals
23 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Every fortnight, the ENDS team runs down the biggest green news stories, shines a spotlight on some pretty nasty chemicals, and takes a forensic look ...