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  • News More floods are coming to Britain, but you ought to know this: the system that should protect us is a scandal, George Monbiot, theguardian.com (Sep 18, 2024)
  • News One in four neighbourhoods across England breach multiple nature pollution thresholds, friendsoftheearth.uk (Sep 03, 2024) — New research by Friends of the Earth shows 1 in 4 neighbourhoods classify as nature pollution hotspots. Pollution hotspots are areas where air, water, noise and light pollution levels all exceed safe thresholds for wildlife. Friends of the Earth is calling for the right to a healthy environment to be enshrined in a new Environmental Rights Act. The law would empower communities to hold regulators and public bodies to account to reduce the multiple layers of pollution affecting their areas to better protect wildlife and people.
  • News ‘When it’s sunny, we get the barbecue out’: urban gardeners transform foul alleys into verdant havens, theguardian.com (Aug 12, 2024)
  • News Expanding London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) has improved air quality and reduced harmful emissions from cars and vans says City Hall, BBC News (Jul 25, 2024)
  • News Regen, organic & agroecology: what’s the difference?, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jul 17, 2024)
  • News Wolds oil drilling plans quashed in landmark ruling, BBC News (Jul 11, 2024)
  • News Cumbria coalmine was unlawfully approved, government says, theguardian.com (Jul 11, 2024)
  • News As effluent from sewage works and agricultural pollution flow freely into rivers, researchers and local citizens are urgently seeking to clean up the UK's waterways. New wildlife-rich wetlands could be an answer, bbc.co.uk (Jul 05, 2024)
  • News Edinburgh Council bans advertising for fossil fuel companies, airlines, airports, fossil-powered cars, SUVs, cruise ships and arms manufacturers on council-owned advertising spaces, badverts.org (May 29, 2024) — across England, one-third of local authorities now have some form of restrictions on harmful advertising
  • News Thames21 welcomes Government’s plan to ban plastic in wet wipes, thames21.org.uk (Apr 22, 2024)
  • News ‘Does rewilding sort climate change? Yes!’: UK expert says nature can save planet and not harm farming, theguardian.com (Feb 25, 2024)
  • News ‘Like the flip of a switch, it’s gone’: has the ecosystem of the UK’s largest lake collapsed?, theguardian.com (Feb 19, 2024)
  • News A final line of defence: combatting the slow, agonising death of the River Wye, riveractionuk.com (Feb 09, 2024)
  • News Government in court over chicken poo in River Wye, BBC News (Feb 07, 2024)
  • News Pesticides urgently need reform – the UK’s overdue action plan must make these drastic changes, theconversation.com (Feb 05, 2024)
  • News Brexit divergence from EU destroying UK’s vital environmental protections, theguardian.com (Jan 19, 2024)
  • News Nature in England at risk due to government failures, says environment watchdog, theguardian.com (Jan 18, 2024)

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  • News UK ministers ‘misled public’ when scrapping air quality regulations, theguardian.com (Dec 06, 2023)
  • News The Wildlife Trusts publish list of the UK’s Government’s broken promises to nature, wildlifetrusts.org (Nov 03, 2023)
  • News Ammanford: Opencast coalmine plans rejected by council, BBC News (Sep 15, 2023)
  • News Lords sink plan to axe homebuilding pollution rules, BBC news (Sep 14, 2023)
  • News ‘Unacceptable’: how raw sewage has affected rivers in England and Wales – in maps, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2023)
  • News Clean air ‘a right not a privilege’, says London mayor as Ulez is expanded, theguardian.com (Aug 29, 2023)
  • News Ministers accused of ‘environmental crime’ over South Downs oil drilling, theguardian.com (Aug 23, 2023)
  • News High costs deterring legal challenges in England and Wales to protect environment, NGOs say, The Guardian (Jun 28, 2023)
  • News Horse Hill oil - a legal challenge with real climate impact, friendsoftheearth.uk (Jun 28, 2023)
  • News At last, England’s dying rivers are an election issue – and the danger isn’t just sewage, George Monbiot, The Guardian (May 03, 2023)
  • News Protesters urge caution over St Ives climate trial amid chemical plans for bay, The Guardian (Apr 17, 2023)
  • News UK criticised for failing to join UN-backed river restoration scheme, newscientist.com (Mar 24, 2023)
  • News The ‘bin-novative’ approach to rubbish that’s slashing beach litter, positive.news (Feb 16, 2023)

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  • News If more houses had water butts, it could help with drought, flooding and water pollution, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
  • News Bradford clean air zone launches, BBC News (Sep 26, 2022)
  • News Nearly 100 billion pieces of plastic packaging are thrown away by UK households every year, and just 12% recycled in the UK., The Big Plastic Count (Jul 12, 2022) — The Big Plastic Count has revealed that 88% our household waste is being burnt, buried and dumped overseas.
  • News Majority of residents think Staveley Rd barrier is a success, chiswickcalendar.co.uk (May 30, 2022)
  • News Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics, The Conversation (May 23, 2022)
  • News Fracking: UK's only shale gas wells to be sealed and abandoned, BBC News (Feb 10, 2022)
  • News 'Chemical cocktail’ polluting English rivers - MPs warn, BBC News (Jan 13, 2022)

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