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.

For this week’s Big Green News, the team finds out:

• Why the toxic neonicotinoid Cruiser SB pesticide was authorised by the Conservative government without any kind of environmental assessment carried out for wildlife in protected areas.
• Which culprits are responsible for over-abstracting in England during the hottest year on record... and in an ironic twist the Environment Agency made the naughty list.
• And Rachel Reeve's infrastructure stampout, the invasive eight-toothed spruce bark beetle in the south, and £2.4bn shortfall that UK farming needs to avert a nature crisis

For our deep-dive we speak with ENDS Europes’ deputy editor Simon Pickstone to find out what the Swiss can teach us about how we can one day swim in the rivers and lakes that run through the heart of our cities…

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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.

For this week’s Big Green News, the team discusses:

• The implications of the King's Speech for the climate and the UK's natural environment
• Why the housing secretary wants to change the process of environmental assessments.
• And Mary Creagh, Lough Neagh's restoration plan and Wild Justice in Dartmoor, we'll give you the news-in-brief.

For our deep-dive we speak with the chief executive of the Wildlife Trusts Craig Bennett on Labour's direction of green policy, the relationships with NGOs, how the Trusts' wildbelt works with Labour's greybelt, the restoration of the Celtic rainforests and how to avoid falling into corporate traps.

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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.

In this week’s episode, we focus on the politics of solar power – more than a gigawatt of solar energy has been approved by the energy minister Ed Milliband but how, where and why?

And Ofwat’s draft price determinations show water bills will go up. Will the additional rates improve our natural environment?

For the news-in-brief the team discusses:

• The asbestor waste dumper of Devon
• Ofwat's national sewage investigation
• And Green Electricity Wales.

For this week's deep-dive, the team explores the big cities of England and where you will find the greenest urban places in the country.

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