NEW: The Environment Agency has been forced to cancel thousands of water pollution tests over the past three months due to staff shortages

Joint investigation by @unearthednews.bsky.social and @desmog.com out today

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🔴 10k water quality tests have been cut by the UK's environmental regulator since May, designed to monitor the impacts of sewage, farm runoff and other pollution on rivers & lakes

✍️with the brill @ellieodonnell.bsky.social for @desmog.com & @unearthednews.bsky.social
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The Environment Agency has dropped 10,000 water quality tests that track the health of rivers and lakes due to staff shortages at their main lab. Latest from me and
@clarecarlile.bsky.social

🔴 NEW - Staff Shortages Have Forced Major Cuts to Environment Agency Water Quality Monitoring, Internal Docs Reveal

Conservationists warn that cancellation of thousands of tests since May will leave a “regulatory and ecological blind spot”

📝 @clarecarlile.bsky.social & @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

Water companies are worried about a “backlash” to sludge fertiliser akin to the public outrage they have faced over sewage released into rivers and seas

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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

New investigation out today!

We’ve learned that water companies are freaking out about the prospect of a government crackdown on agricultural pollution. Why? Because it could stop them dumping millions of tonnes of sewage sludge on the fields that grow our food

with @zdboren.bsky.social

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This is a really important & quite shocking, investigation.

The water industry is worried that in just 3 years time it may have nowhere to send millions of tonnes of sludge.

Sludge is spread on farms but there are now concerning levels of PFAS in it.

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Water companies are panicking that they could be left with a mountain of sludge with ‘nowhere to go’

Latest from me and @zdboren.bsky.social

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Also on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

water comanies are freaking out that they're about to have millions of tonnes of toxic sewage sludge with 'nowhere to go'

my latest for @unearthednews.bsky.social

with @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

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🚨 REVEALED: An Unearthed investigation has found major brands continued to promote environmental claims months or years after they were ruled “misleading” by the UK ad watchdog: unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/05/14/m...

What’s the point of banning greenwashing if big brands can just carry on?

Our latest investigation has found major brands have continued to promote green claims, months or even years after they were ruled “misleading” by the UK ad watchdog:
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BREAKING:

More than 100 old landfills across England containing potentially hazardous material have flooded at least once this century.

Experts have raised concerns that dangerous substances could get into the environment through floodwater.

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Old landfills can contain all kinds of nasties like industrial waste, persistent pollutants and pharmaceuticals.

Our research reveals that 100+ dump sites with potentially hazardous contents flooded across England since 2000.

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New from me and @ellieodonnell.bsky.social

Historic landfills pose a looming environmental threat

We found over 2,600 sites with potentially hazardous waste close to watercourses across England

And over 100 sites that have flooded since 2000

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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?

Hello Bluesky!🔵Starting on here the way I mean to go on...

Investigation out today: as UN plastic treaty talks kick off in S Korea, we dug into the organisation launched by the oil & plastic industries to "end plastic waste".

Spoiler: it's not managed to

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👋 Hello Bluesky! 👋 We're a team of environmental journalists backed by Greenpeace UK.

We investigate fossil fuels, intensive farming, greenwash, and pollution. Catch up on our back catalogue here: unearthed.greenpeace.org