We’re Fighting Dirty. Literally.
Fighting Dirty is a group of three environmental activists. Together we formed Fighting Dirty to use legal means to challenge loopholes enabling harmful pollution in our shared natural environment.
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Who are we?
George Monbiot
Journalist, author & campaigner
George is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker, speaker, activist, and author of twelve bestselling books, including Feral, Regenesis, and Out of the Wreckage. He won the Orwell Prize for journalism in 2022 for his decades-long commitment to neglected environmental issues.
George is an honorary fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford, and contributes to several scientific and academic organisations working on environmental and social solutions at scale. In 2019, he helped launch the Natural Climate Solutions campaign, calling for the mass restoration of living systems. He is on the advisory board of EAT – a non-profit and scientific forum that seeks ways of transforming the global food system to improve human health and defend the living world.
Georgia Elliott-Smith
Engineer, business owner & campaigner
Georgia is an environmental engineer with 25 years’ experience in the property and construction industry. Founder and managing director of sustainability consultancy, Element Four, 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.
Georgia was the claimant in a 2021 judicial review of the UK Emissions Trading Scheme, arguing that energy-from-waste incinerators must pay for their carbon emissions, consistent with the UK’s obligations under the Paris Agreement. From 2028, EfW will be included in the scheme, a development described by the Environmental Services Association – the waste industry trade body – as “the most significant regulatory intervention to the UK waste industry in a generation”.
Steve Hynd
Policy Manager, campaigner & local councillor
Steve Hynd is the Policy Manager at the award winning not-for-profit ‘City to Sea’, who campaign to stop plastic pollution at source. Steve’s work means he is engaging daily with businesses, politicians, and the public about tangible ways in which they can tackle the growing problem of plastic pollution. Steve has led on campaigns to see the most polluting single-use plastics banned, ambitious and legally binding reduction and reuse targets enshrined into law and for ‘false solutions’ around bioplastics to be rejected.
Previously, Steve has worked at every level of politics in both the UK and European Parliament and as The Head of Mayor’s Office on Bristol City Council. He is currently the Deputy Leader of The Green Group of Councillors on Stroud District Council.
What do we do?
Fighting Dirty has been established to:
- Raise awareness of and fight environmental pollution that results in harm to life on Earth.
- Campaign for elimination, abatement, or mitigation of such pollution.
- Use legal instruments where necessary to challenge mechanisms that enable pollution including, but not limited to, local, national, or international policy and regulations for the purpose of reducing or eliminating such pollution.
We are supported by Leigh Day Solicitors and Matrix Chambers, the incredible team behind Wild Justice and landmark rulings such as the UK government’s unlawful Net Zero strategy.