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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...
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...
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 Environment Agency...
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...
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...
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...
Thursday 2nd November:The campaign group, Fighting Dirty, have today launched legal action against the Environment Agency (EA) and the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, over a lack of testing for microplastics and harmful ‘forever...