Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has today welcomed the findings of a long-awaited internal review by the Environment Agency, which confirms the EA failed to ensure it was fulfilling its legal obligations when exporting waste tyres to India and will take action to prevent this from occurring. The review comes as a direct response to Fighting Dirty’s sustained campaign and legal threats over the last year.
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Press Release: Fighting Dirty wins major campaign victory as Government announces plan to regulate ‘toxic’ sewage sludge
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 sewage sludge under the Environmental Permitting Regime (EPR).
Open statement by leading environmentalists demands government action over “toxic cocktail of chemicals” spread on British farmland
In the UK, we have a dirty secret that’s recently been brought into the light. Sewage sludge, we now know, contains far more than just human waste. Not only does a wide range of synthetic chemicals pour down the drain from homes, businesses and roads, but the water...
Major victory’ for campaigners as Environment Agency agrees to tackle UK tyre exports to India following threat of legal action
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 in response to a threat of court proceedings. Since 2023, Fighting...
Environment Agency put under notice of legal proceedings as devastating environmental and health impacts of car tyre exports are laid bare
The legal campaign group, Fighting Dirty, have today announced that they’ve put the Environment Agency (EA) on notice of legal proceedings after sending a pre-action protocol letter. The move comes over the EA’s lack of action around addressing the environmental or...
Toxic sewage sludge case thrown out, as judge rules that the EA were hamstrung by Ministerial delays. Now Labour must step up
Press release: For immediate release. The campaign group Fighting Dirty has lost its case against the Environment Agency at the High Court today (August 21), on the crucial issue of spreading toxic sewage sludge on farmland. The judge ruled that the...
Fighting Dirty granted High Court hearing to challenge Environment Agency over axing of pledge to test sewage sludge
Press release: For immediate release. Environmental campaign group Fighting Dirty has been granted permission for a High Court hearing to challenge the Environment Agency (EA) over its decision to axe a commitment to have sewage sludge tested for microplastics and...
A cocktail of toxins is poisoning our fields. Its effect on humans? Nobody can tell us
This article is by one of our Founding Directors, George Monbiot, and was written for The Guardian. It’s an experiment with 8 billion test subjects, no controls and no endpoint. What happens when you release thousands of novel chemicals, most of which have...
Why we’re fighting dirty against microplastics in our fertiliser and food
This article was written for The Grocer by one of our Directors, Steve Hynd.We don’t know how many microplastics we eat. This is, in and of itself, alarming. We do have some best estimates: one University of Newcastle study found we consume a...
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