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 very dirty problems of England’s bathing waters.
• The crypto outbreak in Devon plaguing resident.
• And the United Utilities scandal haunting Windermere – England’s largest and very dirty lake.

For this week's episode we report from the River Summit at Morden Hall where we hear thoughts from big fish such as Feargal Sharkey, Paul Whitehouse, Jim Murray, Guy Shrubsole and the Environment Agency's Philip Duffy.

For our deep-dive, we speak with Fish Legal's Angela Henry about their landmark legal victory against the government and how the process of informing public bodies actually works.

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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 on-going beef between the government and the post-Brexit environmental watchdog – the Office for Environmental Protection and this time it's over the state of our waterways.
• We find out if the move to drop two green infringement cases against the UK means the EU has finally bowed out from pursuing legal challenges over the channel.
• And knotweed, the seven deadly bins and the new designated bathing water sites, we’ll bring you the news-in-brief.

For our deep-dive, we take a forensic look at how the UK's green policy is diverging not just from the EU but also within the devolved nations.

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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 fallout of the local elections… was it really the ULEZ wot won it in London?
• We’ll also be finding out why the government has suffered another defeat in the courts over its failed climate plans.
• SEPA’s new green assessment scheme, DEFRA ministers’ close ties with the shooting industry, and the sound of our own trumpet – we discuss the news-in-brief.

For our deep-dive, we speak with environmental activist Tony Whitehead, a campaigner with the Alliance for Nature on Dartmoor, a group fighting for the ecological restoration of the national park.

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