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

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 claimWhy 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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.