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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 9d

Today is the first day we were meant to see 'enhanced verification' of tyres shipped from the UK to India. Typically, we would see 40 or so a day. Today, we saw ... 0!

Our Founder has more >>> www.linkedin.com/posts/georgi...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great news. At
@fightingdirty.bsky.social we lost our court case on sewage sludge spreading, but now we're winning by other means.
It's crazy that it took so long, but shows that persistence pays. Please support FD if you can. Thanks.
fightingdirty.org/press-releas...

Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge | Fighting Dirty

The campaigning environmental group, Fighting Dirty, is today celebrating a landmark victory following the release of the long-awaited Independent Water Commission Report, which recommends regulating ...

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · 18d

Delighted to have left X. In the words of a great philosopher, "ain't nobody got time for that".

accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · Sep 4

Georgia Elliott-Smith (a prominent environmental justice campaigner, engineer, and the founder of Fighting Dirty, an organization dedicated to combating pollution in the UK) has left X (1.453 followers)

Bluesky: @georgiaes.bsky.social

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 28d

Our Founder, @georgiaes.bsky.social "The fate of toxic liquids oozing out of old landfill sites is an enormous dirty secret between landfill owners, the EA, and water companies.” in today's Guardian >>> www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Thousands of tonnes of toxic landfill liquid added to sewage and spread on English farms

Exclusive: Leachate is tankered to treatment works where it mixes with sewage and industrial effluent

www.theguardian.com

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · 23d

NEW (and shocking): Our FOI request shows AGC Chemicals Europe, which is located near Blackpool, is still producing products containing PFOA and is releasing it to the air. www.endsreport.com/article/1932...

REVEALED: EA allowing factory to produce products with banned PFAS – and release it to air

<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The Environment Agency (EA) is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical - and release it to the air - despite it being globally ban...

www.endsreport.com

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · Jul 10

Huge hat tip to our friends at @riveractionuk.bsky.social and Hugh for illustrating the issues here so clearly.

If you're not already following @riveractionuk.bsky.social do now - they're campaign on #sewagesludge is taking our concerns on the subject to the heart of government!

River Action @riveractionuk.bsky.social · Jul 10

A recipe for DISASTER 🤢

Hugh uncovers a recipe for toxic sewage sludge, with lovely ingredients, including:
🦠 Pathogens
🥄 Microplastics
🏭 Industrial waste!

SIGN THE PETITION to make water companies clean up their own mess. 😤

👉 act.gp/4nHfsAc

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · Jul 11

Inaction isn't an option 👇

“Every day of inaction locks in decades of pollution and environmental harm … we’re asking the UK government to turn off the tap of these persistent forever chemicals.” @fidrango.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Toxic Pfas above proposed safety limits in almost all English waters tested

Exclusive: 110 of 117 bodies of water tested by Environment Agency would fail standards, with levels in fish 322 times the planned limit

www.theguardian.com

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Jul 18

We have such an odd view of what's natural. We look out over miles of farmers' fields and see 'nature' when we're actually looking at an industrial landscape, as polluted and non-biodiverse as a trading estate.

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Jul 18

I've just returned from wild camping in the Lake District - it's overrun with sheep and the hills and valleys are stripped bare. Nothing can survive except impenetrable blankets of bracken. I wonder what diversity could flourish if any other plant life existed.

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · Jul 16

UPDATE: The Environment Agency has told us that their review of their regulatory position for waste tyre exports (more on this here fightingdirty.org/major-victor...) will now be published on the 31st July - more than a month after they were originally aiming to.

Watch this space.

Major victory’ for campaigners as Environment Agency agrees to tackle UK tyre exports to India following threat of legal action | Fighting Dirty

The legal campaign group, Fighting Dirty, has secured a major victory after receiving a letter from the Environment Agency (EA) committing to undertake a review of its approach to waste tyre shipments...

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thank you for everything you do, Steve

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Jun 19

We forced a govt investigation into illegal waste tyre export trade, and got ministers to finally pay attention to toxic sewage sludge entering our food. But we can't do this without YOU! Please share, subscribe, or buy us a virtual coffee so we can keep changing the law to make polluters pay! 🙏❤️🌏

Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · Jun 19

We crowdfund our cases. Without your support, we can't take legal action.

But that's only for the cases that end up in court.

Between these cases, we need to pay for research, legal advice and outreach work.

Can you support this work through a monthly donation?

fightingdirty.org/donate/

Donate | Fighting Dirty

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Jun 10

We certainly agree. Hopefully, public & political questions will force more attention & action

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Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · Jun 10

Our Founding Director @georgiaes.bsky.social was on BBC News earlier this morning, talking about the scandal of sewage sludge being spread onto our farmland despite the testing of this sludge not being updated since 1989.

Read more about our ask to government here bsky.app/profile/figh...

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · Jun 10

To recap: There are 10,000+ PFAS. Some are toxic. They're here forever. They pollute water, air, soils, animals and you. Some linked to diseases inc cancers. So when scientists warn against moves to redefine them, we'd better hope people are listening: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Scientists warn against attempts to change definition of ‘forever chemicals’

Move to narrow classification of Pfas and weaken regulation is ‘politically and/or economically motivated’

www.theguardian.com

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · May 21

Some of you have very kindly voted for me here. If anyone else wants to do so, it's the last call - voting closes at midnight. Thank you! www.amnesty.org.uk/cast-your-vote

Cast Your Vote for the Amnesty UK People's Choice Award

Cast your vote in the first ever Amnesty UK People's Choice Awards. Which UK journalist do you think made the greatest impact in their tireless reporting on human rights?

www.amnesty.org.uk

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · May 21

£ for £ nothing else can compete, a unit of energy not used is always cheaper - than even a unit of green energy made. We should be scaling this up, not scaling it back. The treasury need to see that insulation is infrastructure, investment in the future. Warm Homes matter - and payback very quickly

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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · May 21

I hope Labour are not quietly watering down the Warm Homes plan – 5 million homes are at risk. But insulation is one of the smartest investments we can make – it slashes bills, emissions, and energy waste - and improves lives.

buff.ly/X5QZlgC

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · May 19

How lovely to be included in this list of wonderful campaigners! Thank you, @endsreport.com

ENDS Report @endsreport.com · May 19

📢 Mya-Rose Craig, founder and president of Black2Nature
📢 Gail Davies-Walsh, chief executive of @afonyddcymru.bsky.social‬
📢 @georgiaes.bsky.social ‬, founder and director of @fightingdirty.bsky.social
2025-uks-100-impactful-environmental-professionals

Power List 2025: The UK’s 100 most impactful environmental professionals

www.endsreport.com

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Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · May 19

Thank you, @endsreport.com! What wonderful company to be in

Georgia Elliott-Smith @georgiaes.bsky.social · Apr 3

Unbiased judicial process is the backbone of democracy & the ultimate protection for human & environmental rights. Tyranny thrives when justice is denied - we must fight to defend fair trial or one day it'll be gone. @greenpeace.org @fightingdirty.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I was an independent observer in the Greenpeace trial. What I saw was shocking | Steven Donziger

Greenpeace lost – not because it did something wrong but because it was denied a fair trial

www.theguardian.com

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Cat Hobbs @cathobbs.bsky.social · Mar 31

Absolutely absurd

KKR is a private equity firm that inspired a book and film about corporate greed called Barbarians at the Gate

NO we don't want them running Thames Water

PUBLIC OWNERSHIP NOW

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Thames Water names US private equity group KKR as preferred bidder

KKR expected to acquire stake worth £4bn as UK’s biggest water supplier tries to stave off nationalisation

www.theguardian.com

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · Apr 1

Terrible news! Between 2021 & 2024 the ban on hunting turtle doves allowed the population to increase 25% - an astronomical speed of recovery. Before that numbers had been plummeting. Turtle dove population in the UK shrank by 98% between 1994 & 2021.

BirdLife Europe & Central Asia @birdlifeeurope.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨 BREAKING: Turtle-dove hunting season reopens!

The EU Commission just gave the green light for EU countries to resume the hunt for European Turtle-doves, ending a 3-year pause.

This is reckless, short-sighted and will take this bird back to the brink.

More info: www.birdlife.org/news/2025/04...

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · Apr 2

Yesterday the UK's Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched.

The UK is the first country in the world setting clean heat standards for heating appliance manufacturers. It is a policy that if implemented well could be the key to scaling clean heating solutions.

www.installeronline.co.uk/green-energy...

Clean Heat Market Mechanism launched

The Clean Heat Market Mechanism (CHMM) has been introduced by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero. Under the scheme, manufacturers that sell more

www.installeronline.co.uk

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Chris Packham @chrisgpackham.bsky.social · Apr 2

How did two short-eared owls end up getting shot on a grouse moor in the Yorkshire Dales ? Thanks to @rspbinvestigations.bsky.social quick thinking Investigation teams , we know . . .

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