WATCH, READ, LISTEN: An investigation by @UE alleged that companies are exploiting loopholes in France’s landmark pesticide ban to ship growing amounts of harmful chemicals overseas.
✍️ @CrispinDowler and Naira Hofmeister
https://t.co/mS6gVKXUIs
La France continue à exporter des pesticides interdits, vers le Brésil, l'Ukraine, la Russie ou l'Inde… qui reviennent ensuite chez nous dans les fruits et légumes importés https://t.co/4cbDuBKbbz
BREAKING: Residents around a chemicals plant have been told to wash and peel homegrown vegetables before eating while an investigation into potential soil contamination with a cancer-causing chemical PFOA gets under way 1/
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Pesticides : la France continue à exporter des milliers de tonnes de substances interdites… qui reviennent ensuite dans nos assiettes via les importations. Le gouvernement avait pourtant promis de corriger cette faille dans la loi. https://t.co/C48TMOe8SA via @lemondefr
Breaking: A new investigation from @UE and @PublicEyeSuisse has found factories exporting rising quantities of banned chemicals from France to be used in pesticide production overseas, despite the French government's promise to end this practice
https://t.co/n7KZGOlos0
failure to bring in new regulations for sewage sludge use on farms was the fault of tory environment ministers not the environment agency, judge rules
https://t.co/LlFLoGKNiC
Breaking: England's environmental regulator has been turning up late, or not at all, to 3/4 of the country's worst pollution incidents
In hundreds of cases, the Environment Agency took weeks to arrive on the scene
Major new @UE investigation out today
https://t.co/ElMOvmDgum
New Newsnight piece out about environmental breaches at UK energy company Drax's Canadian pellet mills
Strong echoes here of the findings of @UE's 2022 investigation into Drax's pellet mill operations in the US' deep south
https://t.co/tLU3wlYpMS
Drax is the UK's largest recipient of green subsidies for biomass. They've been under particular focus as this year the BBC reported it had burned wood from rare forests in Canada. Now, #Newsnight's @katelamble has seen evidence of almost 200 environmental breaches at the mills which turn wood, headed to Drax, into pellets.
Barclays bank has helped fund billions of dollars in "sustainable finance" for fossil fuel companies. One investor has called the move “totally dishonest.”
https://t.co/NScXGByuPo
The Standard is reporting that the 'PM has dodged questions' about anti-Ulez Facebook groups that contain Islamophobia and death threats aimed at London Mayor Sadiq Khan
https://t.co/LrTGnXgA3q
The findings of our latest investigation hit PMQs today.
MPs urged the Prime Minister to "shed some light" on the "shady" Facebook groups we uncovered, as well as their “funding and their links to his party”.
Read the original story here:
https://t.co/NIAw3wH7rA