And we're off! Just passed the £1,000 mark with our crowdfunding campaign, raising money to take the Government to court and stop the "fast track" for new chemicals to enter the UK without scrutiny: www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...

You can follow us at @fightingdirty.bsky.social We'll keep you posted on this and other campaigns. Really appreciate any help you can give. Thank you.

A great write-up, with useful detail, in the ever-brilliant ENDS Report. They've kindly made this article free to read. www.endsreport.com/article/1961...

‘Deregulation dressed up as efficiency’: Government faces legal challenge over chemical rule changes

<b>EXCLUSIVE:</b> The government’s move to introduce a statutory instrument amending key chemicals laws to promote economic growth faces a legal challenge from campaigners, who argue that ministers ha...

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Here's our crowdfunder. Please do chip in if you can. We need to counter the deeply pernicious industrial lobbying that has far too much influence in this country, and uses Brexit as a golden opportunity to rip down public protections. Thanks. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...

UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court

George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A crucial issue: deregulation by stealth, which could expose us to a greater range of hazardous chemicals than the EU permits, contrary to government promises. We at Fighting Dirty are suing. We need your help. Please see crowdfunder in next post. Thank you 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Today, we at @fightingdirty.bsky.social launch a legal challenge against HSE who last month introduced new regulations that rip up chemical safety laws, creating a "fast track" for new chemicals to be sold in the UK www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The chemicals we're exposed to today don't disappear tomorrow. They build up in our bodies, our soil and our food chain. Today, Fighting Dirty launched legal action against Government changes that could weaken chemical safety protections. We need your help. www.crowdjustice.com/case/fightin...

UK Government scraps chemical safety laws - so we're going to court

George Monbiot, Georgia Elliott-Smith and Steve Hyndside are Fighting Dirty, using the law to stop harmful pollution in its tracks. Find out more and follow our work at https://fightingdirty.org/

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This event brings together the world's leading defence, food security, economics, ecology & climate experts. All UK MPs are invited, but many haven't RSVP'd. Send your MP a quick prompt here www.nebriefing.org so they can learn about tangible threats to UK citizens and how to protect us

National Emergency Briefing on climate & nature

An unfiltered assessment of the latest threats to UK food supply, health and national security from eight leading experts to an invitation-only audience - also covering positive solutions. Westminster...

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Chris Packham@chrisgpackham.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ve just announced I’ll be leading a National Emergency Briefing on 27 November . At a time when climate is in free fall on the political agenda , it’s vital our leaders realise what is at stake if we do not accelerate a just , green transition for all . @nebriefing.bsky.social 🇬🇧

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...

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

@accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 11mo ago

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

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

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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...

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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 · last yr.

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

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

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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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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 · last yr.

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/

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...

Fighting Dirty @fightingdirty.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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’

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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?

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£ 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

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

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

ENDS Report@endsreport.com · last yr.

📢 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

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

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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

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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 · last yr.

🚨 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...

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

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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 . . .

The Environment Agency will review its approach to waste tyre exports. This comes after @fightingdirty.bsky.social initiated legal proceedings after an investigation found that millions of tyres being exported from the UK are being sent to furnaces in India www.endsreport.com/article/1912...

Environment Agency to review waste tyre shipments following legal threat

The Environment Agency (EA) will review its approach to waste tyre shipments after an investigation found that millions of UK tyres are being illegally sent to pyrolysis plants in India.

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At a time when the government is "cutting red tape", telling regulators they need to "do more with less", sometimes it's revealing to look at what happens when the same firms that operate in this country are freed from restrictions.

Georgia Elliott-Smith@georgiaes.bsky.social · last yr.

Veolia deliberately pumping hazardous landfill waste into protected wetlands. The same #Veolia that manages UK landfills & incinerators @veoliauk.bsky.social