Meanwhile, new polling shows that the prospect of a local fracking site is wildly unpopular with "Reform-curious" Labour voters

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Reform's promise of a fracking bonanza if they win power could cost them in the north. Smart bit of mapping from
@zdboren.bsky.social
and
@richasyal.bsky.social
shows dozens of the constituencies most likely to be fracked are prime Reform targets

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Meanwhile, new polling shows that the prospect of a local fracking site is wildly unpopular with "Reform-curious" Labour voters

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The way water companies use farmland as the dumping ground for sewage sludge is building up massive risks for nature and our food system

Neither the industry nor our politicians have wanted to bear the cost of fixing this problem, so they've left it in the long grass

But they know that can't last

People are worried that this could be harming farmland, ever since Unearthed uncovered a secret Environment Agency (EA) report showing that this sludge contained a cocktail of toxic contaminants like microplastics and ‘forever chemicals’ 3/6

A recent investigation by @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social has exposed that if new regulations come into force to stop this reckless sludge spreading, water companies will be left with millions of tonnes of waste without a home.

And their plan? To make you, the public, pay for the clean-up. Again. 😡

A real crisis has finally made it from the shadows into the light - what to do with all the sewage sludge we produce if you can't spread it on land anymore? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We've just released a joint statement with some incredible NGOs and individuals calling on the Environment Minister to give a steer to the Environment Agency to update the testing and regulating regime of sewage sludge. Full statement here or read on in this 🧵 fightingdirty.org/open-stateme...

Unearthed obtained an internal Environment Agency briefing which warned that farmers could stop accepting sewage sludge on their land due to rising concern about contaminants

It says this would have "very serious consequences" as water companies have no "Plan B" for the sludge they produce

Amazing new investigation from @ellieodonnell.bsky.social and @zdboren.bsky.social

Water companies are scared the govt is about to crack down on agricultural river pollution, because it could stop them dumping millions of tonnes of sewage sludge on farmland

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Sharp investigative work here by @richasyal.bsky.social

🐄 JBS, the world’s biggest meat company, says it’s cleaning up its supply chain in the Amazon by the end of this year. 🌳

We spoke to 30+ ranchers and industry leaders. The vast majority said JBS will miss its target: it’s “humanly impossible”, said one.
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I have been reporting on deforestation in Brazil for years.

Last year, along with @aliceross.bsky.social and Naira Hofmeister, I decided to dig into beef giant JBS’s flagship promise: to eliminate deforestation from its Amazon supply chain by the end of 2025.

So what’s actually changed?

This is a nuclear-powered icebreaker, operated by a state-owned Russian company called Atomflot.

Atomflot has been sanctioned by the EU, UK and US since 2023.

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NEW INVESTIGATION
🚢 Companies including Shell and Total import millions of tonnes of gas a year to Europe from the Russian Arctic on specialised LNG tankers. Last winter, these shipments relied on a fleet of sanctioned icebreakers to cross Siberian waters 🚢

This is good news. But the UK is still exporting huge amounts of this *same* banned, bee-killing pesticide overseas

Last year the UK exported 374 tonnes of thiamethoxam to countries like Morocco and Ivory Coast. That's enough to spray the whole of England

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NEW

The UK has rejected an application by farmers to use a bee-killing pesticide on sugar beet in England

This is a big deal

For the past four years in a row, the last government approved emergency use of the neonicotinoid

Will likely delight conservationists, infuriate farmers

The Environment Agency has known for years that sludge contains PFAS, as well as persistent organic pollutants and microplastics. But outdated laws mean water companies don't have to test sludge for any of these contaminants before it is spread on farmland.

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Yesterday, the EPA warned that toxic PFAS chemicals in the sewage sludge that is spread on US farmland as fertiliser may be causing cancer

The UK also spreads huge amounts of sludge on farms. Like the US, we know this sludge contains PFAS, but don't routinely test for it

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NEW on Unearthed: The best environmental journalism of 2024.

From across the media and the planet, including bold undercover investigations and powerful public interest science journalism, Unearthed reporters select the stories we wish we had written this year.

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“Our government cannot continue to permit this kind of exploitation."

- Green Party MP @sianberry.bsky.social responds to Unearthed's new investigation, which found that companies exported 8,500 tonnes of banned pesticides from the UK last year

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When his right side seized up after working the fields of his small-holding, Valdemar Postanovicz thought he was having a stroke.

He had absorbed Reglone, a powerful herbicide based on diquat - banned in the UK, but produced here and shipped to Brazil:

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Last year, 8,489 tonnes of chemicals banned on British farms due to health and environmental concerns were sent abroad

Including a lot of diquat, replacement for paraquat, with bad health impacts

It hammers the land to produce commodity crops for export

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