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 the team discusses:

• Labour's plan to eradicate bovine TB through the use of badger and cattle vaccines and also the planned five-year badger cull still ahead.
• Why the new government has ditched its legal defence of North Sea oil and gas field consents.

For the news-in-brief: Natural England has received just three applications for biodiversity net gain credits in the scheme’s first six months, Drax pays £25m after an Ofgem probe finds data governance failures, and conservationists have launched a judicial review to reduce livestock grazing on Dartmoor, why?

And finally, in this week’s deep-dive, the team speaks to Jo Bradley of Stormwater Shepherds on toxic road run-off, the ecological poisoning of our wildlife and the poorly devised monitoring regimes that govern the fallout from our motorways.

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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 finds out about London City Airport's expansion and how it fits into Labour's green agenda as a whole.

• We also learn about the toxic sludge being spread on our farmers’ fields, who’s regulating it, and why is George Monbiot involved?

• And the news-in-brief: Scotland’s nature fund will be spent on public pay disputes, how does Scotland's drinking water rank globally, and why is Ed Miliband celebrating a big solar victory?

For this week’s fact check, the ECO Chamber analyses the Advertising Standards Authority's pursuit of Virgin Atlantic for its claim that it had flown the world’s first flight on 100% sustainable aviation fuels.

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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 finds out about the Walsall chemical spill and the thousands of litres of toxic waste that’s leaked into the town’s canal.

• We also learn about the golf courses in the firing line for over abstraction during the hottest year on record.
• And the news-in-brief: Labour drops legal action against a sign-wielding climate activist, provisional fees for extended producer responsibility have at long last been published by the government, and the Net Zero Teesside legal action has been thrown out by the courts, why?

For this week’s deep-dive, the ECO Chamber speaks to Ben Reynolds, the executive director of the Institute for European Environmental Policy UK about policy divergences and chemicals between the UK and the EU.

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