Right to Know

Right to Know is a campaign and digital tool helping communities achieve health justice in the UK. Powered by @thecentriclab

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

INTRODUCING RIGHT TO KNOW.

A new digital tool and project providing postcode based environmental pollutant and deprivation data across the UK.

It's time to treat Health as Ecological.

Watch the video to learn more.

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

“The government and environment agency failed in their duty to restore and protect waterways from pollution, the high court has ruled”

https://t.co/jCibrCzE8i

[London Waterkeeper @LDNWaterkeeper]

Here's a sewer overflow by the Thames in Kew.
It doesn't have a monitor or a permit.
It does discharge sewage to the river though.
Just one of Thames Water's 246 illegal outfalls.
It won't be connected to the Tideway Tunnel either, it's too far west.
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[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

I was at the River Wye this week - totally unacceptable that chicken farming is being allowed to pollute our rivers like this.

Whether it's animal factory farming or water companies pumping sewage into our waters - this is the effect of "cutting red tape" & deregulation.

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

Big thanks for @CGGcompany and @benbyford for working to help resolve some issues on https://t.co/Kf09eGDc7C.

We’re back up and running 🙌

If you haven’t already, check out new pages of:

Polluters near you: https://t.co/0EIPa6639H
Landfills near you: https://t.co/Xrsj8YsOnA

[Clean Air for Southall and Hayes @CASHcampaigners]

Residents in Southall, a deprived area, are negatively affected by #airpollution from various sources. Ealing Council's air quality monitoring fund, did not allocate automatic air quality monitoring to schools in Southall's Air Quality Focus Area.
https://t.co/TLAPcXHlt0

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

@todhamer @TheCentricLab There is a technical issue being resolved at the moment. We will update here once completed. Thank you.

[Ian Barnes @Ianbarnes2001]

HUGE sewage discharge into the River Brent in Ealing. Over 15 hours and still dumping! The Brent feeds into the Thames. This is one of the longest discharges I have seen in London from Thames Water.
Absolutely disgusting.

[Centric Lab @TheCentricLab]

There is no 'doing your part to lower emissions' until there is an equitable approach taken to industrial polluters responsible for a host of VOCs, carcinogens, heavy metals, and other particulates.

You can discover more at @RightToKnowUK
👉🏾 https://t.co/8Dh8hM9qui

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

@anndautzenberg We’d love to but it’s funding dependent - happy to work with people who have routes to securing data sources and analysis.

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

INTRODUCING RIGHT TO KNOW.

A new digital tool and project providing postcode based environmental pollutant and deprivation data across the UK.

It's time to treat Health as Ecological.

Watch the video to learn more.

[A.G.H.A.S.T. @AGHASTBRIGHTON]

Southall residents meet with Green Party deputy leader over concerns of living with poor air quality and being ignored by Ealing Council - https://t.co/76H4dH7tMi

[Dr Maria Neira @DrMariaNeira]

Coal plant closure led to rapid drop in heart attacks and strokes in this city, new study finds. https://t.co/Oh7QyY0q2y

[Steven Donziger @SDonziger]

BREAKING: Chemical companies such as Dupont and 3M have been lying to the public for decades about "forever chemicals" in drinking water that have poisoned an estimated 200 million people.

Will these companies and their CEOs ever be indicted? @LeverNews
https://t.co/dQFPy8YoNm

[Clean Air for Southall and Hayes @CASHcampaigners]

A strong burning stench was evident at 7.00pm today along Scotts Road from Sam's Recycling on Johnson Street in #Southall. A burning chest is the result but residents are slowly dying because Sam's Recycling is allowed to burn carcinogenic plastic. @ealingcouncil. #AirPollution

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

“several individual U.S. states emit more carbon dioxide in a year than all the volcanoes on the planet combined do.”

Which emits more carbon dioxide: volcanoes or human activities? https://t.co/WNnhal1yZF

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

@CapurrodDaniel @theipaper "They are usually the sites of former factories, mines, tanneries, landfill or other heavy industry. Whereas modern developments are by law required to include remediation after the site closes, most contaminated sites predate such requirements."

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

Reporting by @CapurrodDaniel at @theipaper shows 37 local authorities across the UK have an average of 1.2 million square metres of contaminated land, equivalent to around 169 football pitches, per council.

https://t.co/hv6UsmIKfN

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

@CapurrodDaniel @theipaper "Contaminated land is, mostly, a legacy of Britain’s industrial heritage and tends to be blighted by heavy metals, such as arsenic and lead; substances such as oil and asbestos; and, on rare occasions, radiation."

[James Wallbank @accessjames]

"Our ecosystem has been completely destroyed. And nobody in power seems to care. What’s left here is a toxic wasteland. Everything is dead. That’s business, I suppose." https://t.co/blB8xE5ysb

[Right to Know @RightToKnowUK]

This is a great platform to engage with the data that underpins the story of our water being destroyed by the entrenched right to pollute.

[top-poop @sewageuk]

@Steven_Swinford for more information on the sewage crisis in your local area you can check https://t.co/jKoUjLrBer

you can find your local constituency, beach, river or shellfish area.

[WE ACT for Environmental Justice @weact4ej]

Great reporting from @guardian shedding light on an insidious #fossilfuel scheme to discredit our Cancer Alley activists & partners @DSCEJ @project_descend + others fighting sky high cancer rates, #environmentalracism, and corporate greed.
https://t.co/hc7iAImRnh