Not-for-profit environmental movement
We're Fighting Dirty.
Fighting Dirty uses legal processes to challenge Government and its agencies, forcing them to create effective policies and regulations that protect people and planet.
By closing pollution loopholes, we aim to prevent harm at source and make pollutures pay for the burden they create on today’s communities and future generations.
Our approach
We’re Fighting Pollution by Going to the Source
Polluters profit while society picks up the bill for health and environmental harms.
Toxic forever chemicals, microplastics, and industrial waste are leaking into our land, air and water, harming wildlife and threatening human health. The UK’s regulators should be stopping this – but they aren’t.
Fighting Dirty takes legal action where other non-profits won’t. We challenge government failures, expose industry corruption, and force real environmental protections using the most effective tool we have – THE LAW.
legal action creates change where campaigning and advocacy fails
When we take legal action, public authorities must:
✅ Show up – no more cut-and-paste platitudes or walls of silence.
✅ Respond to our requests for disclosure, providing information and insight that others cannot obtain.
✅ Tell the truth – the judiciary digs into evidence, reviewing communications between civil servants and what evidence was relied upon to reach decisions.
But as a small not-for-profit, we rely on your donations to keep creating impact.
Our campaigns
We’re already making waves
🔎 Exposing Illegal Waste Exports
Our work with whistleblowers is fueling a BBC documentary on the illegal burning of UK tyres in India.
Tackling PFAS POLLUTION
We’re investigating toxic industrial discharges in UK waterways and are building up a case in 2025
Fighting for Stronger Chemical regulations
We’re challenging the UK’s failure to regulate hazardous substances.
Pressuring the government on sewage sludge
We’re ramping up pressure on the UK government to stop toxic sewage sludge pollution, and hold polluters accountable.
What Drives Us
Our Mission
Fighting Dirty’s mission is to create effective regulation that prevents harmful pollution at source. We use the legal system to challenge the action, or inaction, of policymakers, regulators and other public bodies, closing loopholes and embedding the ‘polluter pays’ principle.
We work with a core legal team to identify strategic cases with the potential to significantly reduce or eliminate harmful pollution primary from ‘forever chemicals’, microplastics, and other toxic substances that present a hazard to the environment and human health.
Who we are
Meet the team
George Monbiot
Award-winning journalist with a regular column in The Guardian, filmmaker, speaker, activist, and author of thirteen bestselling books including Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding, Regenesis, and Out of the Wreckage.
Georgia Elliott-Smith
Environmental engineer with 30 years’ industrial experience. She is a Chartered Environmentalist, Member of the Institute of Environmental Management of Assessment, and former UNESCO Special Junior Envoy for Youth and the Environment.
Steve hynd
Steve is the Media Manager at The Green Party of England and Wales. He has worked around the world from Uganda to the Occupied Palestinian Territories and at every level of politics. Until recently he was the Policy Manager at award-winning not-for-profit ‘City to Sea’.
Support our work
We can’t do it without you
Litigation is powerful
But it’s also expensive. Unlike polluting corporations, we don’t have deep pockets. Every £1 you donate helps us fund expert legal teams, uncover critical evidence, and take polluters to court.
Why legal action
Unlike petitions or protests, legal challenges force action. Governments and corporations cannot ignore court rulings, and when we win, laws change, polluters pay, and the environment is protected at scale.
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