@pippaneill.bsky.social
Award-winning environmental journalist. News editor at
@endsreport.com. Formerly editor of Air Quality News and Environment Journal. Bylines in The Guardian. DMs open 🌎 ✉️
@endsreport.com. Formerly editor of Air Quality News and Environment Journal. Bylines in The Guardian. DMs open 🌎 ✉️
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🔴 EXCLUSIVE 🔴 The Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a globally banned PFAS chemical – and release it to air.
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The UK government has been accused of using 'Trumpian shock tactics' at a recent UN meeting and destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism - one of the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy
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Aarhus Convention: UK accused of using ‘Trumpian shock tactics’ at UN meeting
The UK government has been accused of destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism – a key global environmental agreement – after it refused to endorse a committee’s findings ...
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November 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
The UK government has been accused of using 'Trumpian shock tactics' at a recent UN meeting and destabilising the whole of the Aarhus Convention compliance mechanism - one of the only legally binding global instruments on environmental democracy
www.endsreport.com/article/1940...
www.endsreport.com/article/1940...
The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge.
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Pollution from Ineos’s Antwerp plastic plant ‘could cause more deaths than jobs created’
Lawyers challenge €4bn Project One development, saying emissions and health impacts vastly underestimated
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November 6, 2025 at 4:04 PM
The deaths from pollution caused by Europe’s biggest plastic plant, which is being built in Antwerp, will outstrip the number of permanent jobs it will create, lawyers will argue in a court challenge.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Misleading UK adverts for ’very low emission’ wood-burning stoves banned
ASA action won approval of clean air campaigners, who said some ‘seriously misleading myths’ had been debunked
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November 6, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Adverts claiming that wood-burning stoves are “very low emissions” have been banned by the Advertising Standards Agency for being misleading and not substantiated.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How did the country's most problem ridden landfill end up in the ownership of the Crown Estate?
Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out..
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out..
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
Why Walleys Quarry's closure may have backfired on the EA – and how the saga involves the Crown Estate
When the EA ordered the scandal-ridden site to shut down, the operator simply walked away – and now the clean-up bill might go to the taxpayer. Was closure a blunder, or were there no better options f...
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November 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
How did the country's most problem ridden landfill end up in the ownership of the Crown Estate?
Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out..
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
Read Conor McGlone's investigation for @endsreport.com to find out..
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
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November 3, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate change denial across Latin America, according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south “less inclined” to support UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Great to see The Bureau of Investigative Journalism spotlighting my investigation into PFAS pollution in Bentham in The Spark, a newsletter that spotlights “stories from across the media and around the world that are changing the world for the better.”
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Forever chemicals scandal comes to a head
Bentham, a small town in the north of England, is proving a litmus test for a global pollution crisis
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October 29, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Great to see The Bureau of Investigative Journalism spotlighting my investigation into PFAS pollution in Bentham in The Spark, a newsletter that spotlights “stories from across the media and around the world that are changing the world for the better.”
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Labour MP Lorraine Beavers has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce products containing PFOA, a globally banned and carcinogenic chemical.
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
MP urges government to close ‘loophole’ allowing Blackpool chemical firm to produce products containing PFOA
<strong>EXCLUSIVE: </strong> A Labour MP has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce pro...
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October 29, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Labour MP Lorraine Beavers has said she will urge the government to “remedy” any potential “loophole” that is allowing a chemical factory to the north of Blackpool to legally produce products containing PFOA, a globally banned and carcinogenic chemical.
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
www.endsreport.com/article/1937...
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This makes wood burners collectively more dangerous than UK roads because wood burners are killing more people annually
This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wood burners linked to 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis finds
Use of wood-burning stoves and fires in homes is mostly unnecessary and their toxic pollution costs the NHS millions
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October 23, 2025 at 8:03 AM
This makes wood burners collectively more dangerous than UK roads because wood burners are killing more people annually
This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This analysis is on fine particulates, but doesn't even include **indoor** air pollution which will will add to total deaths
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
No prosecutions made after 15,195 wood-burning complaints in a year in England
Campaigners say figures reveal a lack of enforcement with just 24 fines issued by councils for rule violations
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:52 AM
15,195 complaints about home wood-burning pollution were made in England in the last year
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- result: 24 fines issued by councils, no prosecutions
#airpollution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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I think that's one of the saddest things about this situation - things that ought to create health have been poisoned @pippaneill.bsky.social spoke to one person who felt terrible that veg they'd given to friends + family might have contained harmful chemicals
October 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
I think that's one of the saddest things about this situation - things that ought to create health have been poisoned @pippaneill.bsky.social spoke to one person who felt terrible that veg they'd given to friends + family might have contained harmful chemicals
Stark to hear Rosamund Kissi-Debrah recall the final days of her daughters life - who died due to air pollution - on the same day the news broke that the government will not adopt WHO air quality standards, despite pledging to do so
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www.endsreport.com/article/1936...
October 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Stark to hear Rosamund Kissi-Debrah recall the final days of her daughters life - who died due to air pollution - on the same day the news broke that the government will not adopt WHO air quality standards, despite pledging to do so
www.endsreport.com/article/1936...
www.endsreport.com/article/1936...
An industry lobbyist is poised to lead chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency
Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US Senate poised to approve industry lobbyist to lead chemical safety at EPA
If Douglas Troutman is confirmed, the top four toxics office at the environmental agency will be held by ex-lobbyists
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
An industry lobbyist is poised to lead chemical safety at the Environmental Protection Agency
Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Douglas Troutman is chief lobbyist for a trade group representing cleaning product manufacturers including BASF - the world's largest chemical producer
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social
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Reap What You Sow: Exposing Lancashire's toxic town
A new ENDS investigation reveals that the Environment Agency is allowing a chemicals factory to produce products containing a carcinogenic forever chemical. But how did we get here?
www.endsreport.com
October 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
But, since then, emails seen by @fightingdirty.bsky.social @georgemonbiot.bsky.social @georgiaes.bsky.social reveal the firm admitting to the EA that PFOA is produced as a by-product of making another PFAS at the plant. As reported by @pippaneill.bsky.social
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Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire.
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Lawyers investigating group action claim over Walleys Quarry landfill
Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire.
www.endsreport.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Law firm Leigh Day is investigating a private nuisance group action claim against the former operators of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire.
www.endsreport.com/article/1935...
www.endsreport.com/article/1935...
A large industrial zone in Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
‘Radioactive’ shrimp crisis: Indonesia grapples with contaminated industrial zone
Authorities investigate site after shrimp exported to the US found to contain hazardous isotope Caesium-137
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October 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
A large industrial zone in Indonesia, is grappling with radioactive contamination after a government taskforce found traces of the hazardous isotope Caesium-137 at 22 production facilities at the site, which includes businesses that export frozen seafood.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!)
"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"
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"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"
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A weekly deep dive into the twists and turns of European current affairs, politics and culture, brought to you by Germany’s international broadcaster.
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October 3, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Great to hear @tesscolley.bsky.social and Adnan Khan discuss the findings of our podcast Boy Wasted on Inside Europe (31 mins in!)
"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"
www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...
"9 million containers pass through British ports every year and there are five Environment Agency officers in England checking them"
www.dw.com/en/inside-eu...
NEW: A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court with ‘no admission of liability’ by Angus Fire
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www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
Legal challenge in ‘UK’s most PFAS polluted town’ settled out of court
A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court ...
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September 30, 2025 at 2:17 PM
NEW: A legal challenge brought on behalf of a household in the UK’s ‘most PFAS polluted town’, whose property ‘may have been impacted by PFAS present on the Angus Fire site’, has been settled out of court with ‘no admission of liability’ by Angus Fire
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed!
This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency.
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency.
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
Walleys Quarry operator entered liquidation with possible £80m unpaid tax bill
<strong>EXCLUSIVE: </strong> The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed.
www.endsreport.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
🚨EXCLUSIVE 🚨 The operator of the notorious Walleys Quarry landfill in Staffordshire entered liquidation with a potential £80.8 million unpaid tax bill, court documents have revealed!
This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency.
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
This is on top of the £600,000 it owed to the Environment Agency.
www.endsreport.com/article/1934...
Houses should never have been built’ near a PFAS factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates at @chemtrust.bsky.social fringe event at the Labour Party Conference.
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www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
‘Houses should never have been built’ near Blackpool PFAS factory, MP says
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constitu...
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September 30, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Houses should never have been built’ near a PFAS factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates at @chemtrust.bsky.social fringe event at the Labour Party Conference.
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates
The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
‘Houses should never have been built’ near Blackpool PFAS factory, MP says
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constitu...
www.endsreport.com
September 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near the AGC chemicals factory in Blackpool the constituency MP told delegates
The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
The factory is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation in relation to PFAS pollution
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates.
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September 29, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Labour Conference: ‘Houses should never have been built’ near a chemicals factory in Blackpool that is currently at the centre of a contaminated land investigation, the constituency MP told delegates.
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Labour Conference: The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Greenpeace has said, describing Boy Wasted podcast as a “prime example of this”.
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www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
ENDS investigation shows plastic waste is a ‘public health emergency’, Labour conference hears
<strong>Labour Party Conference:</strong> The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Gree...
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September 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Labour Conference: The government must reframe the problem of plastic waste as a public health emergency rather than just an environmental one, the co-executive director of Greenpeace has said, describing Boy Wasted podcast as a “prime example of this”.
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” after our Boy Wasted Podcast revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in recycling facilities in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.
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www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
MP to start campaign ‘for real change’ at Labour Party conference in wake of ENDS waste investigation
An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” in the wake of a joint ENDS investigation which revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in...
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September 26, 2025 at 12:01 PM
An MP who sits on the Environmental Audit Committee is seeking to start a campaign “for real change” after our Boy Wasted Podcast revealed that hundreds of boys and men have died in recycling facilities in Turkey – a top UK plastic export destination.
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
www.endsreport.com/article/1933...
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The panel, at 2pm on 28 September at the Staybridge Suites in Liverpool, features:
Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP
Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail
Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management
Join us!
Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP
Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail
Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management
Join us!
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
The panel, at 2pm on 28 September at the Staybridge Suites in Liverpool, features:
Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP
Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail
Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management
Join us!
Chair - Barry Gardiner, MP
Tess Colley - ENDS deputy editor
Lucy Taylor - producer at Smoke Trail
Will McCallum - Greenpeace UK
Dan Cooke - Chartered Institute of Waste Management
Join us!
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🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference?
On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social,
will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.
Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️
solidaritycafe.com
On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social,
will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.
Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️
solidaritycafe.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:46 AM
🚨Are you going to Labour Party Conference?
On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social,
will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.
Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️
solidaritycafe.com
On Sunday, ENDS' @tesscolley.bsky.social,
will be speaking on a panel at 2pm to discuss our new true crime podcast, Boy Wasted, and the issue of plastic exports, crime, and recycling.
Join her at Solidarity Cafe ⬇️
solidaritycafe.com