Simon Pickstone

Environmental journalist at @ENDSEurope (please contact me via phone or email)

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I'm sorry to say that they're At It Again

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Is this... the worst ever acronym for an EU-funded project?

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I sometimes wonder if the people applying for EU research grants are playing some kind of sick game

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@GarethSimkins 'HE’s own engineers noted that the bridge presented “no significant risk” and recommended repointing at a cost of £5,000 compared with the £124,000 cost of infilling.' 🙃

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@EmmaSHLui It's all a bit on the nose in a week of extreme weather disasters!

[John Curtin @JPCurtinClimate]

1/ So those bins we fill with food & garden waste - where does it go & what happens to it? Yesterday I found out when one of our Environment Officers paid a site visit to a composting facility. A thread (including how we can all better help the process)….

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@NatBullard @colinmckerrache Looks like there'll be a big political fight over the European Commission's 2035 proposal though... France already signalling it wants hybrid cars to be exempt from the ban

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to which I ask: who on earth will be buying a hybrid car in 2035??

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France's environment minister has heavily signalled she'll try to water down the proposed EU ban on ICEs by 2035 so that it excludes hybrid cars.

[Barbara Pompili @barbarapompili]

La France était l'un des 1ers pays à fixer une fin de vente des véhicules thermiques en 2040.

Nous partageons la volonté de la Commission européenne d'accélérer la trajectoire. Nous accompagnerons la filière automobile dans cette transition essentielle pour le climat. #Fitfor55

[Leo Hickman @LeoHickman]

Why building on flood plains is profoundly *risky* in a rapidly changing climate...

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@elineschaart @chemicalwatch Congrats! Sounds like a great and important job

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@CallumGR1874 hahahahahaha

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One of the things I've learned about living (and now working) next to a busy roundabout is that people do not know how to drive around roundabouts

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I've picked out the hottest takes for the article below. If yours hasn't made it, fret not - we'll be running plenty more stories in the days, weeks, months + years to come (€) https://t.co/vHIetbcxVa

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fml #Fitfor55

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quick update 🙃

[Paweł Wiejski @PWiejski]

To answer a question nobody's asking:

Fit for 55 package is 3795 pages long.

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@tim_e_gore I guess would be double once member states' co-financing obligations are accounted for?

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@gerardofortuna here's what I want to see

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If you're waiting for the fit for 55 press conference, why not read our interview with Mauro Petriccione from DG CLIMA on what to expect? #Fitfor55

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FREE TO READ! The European Commission’s director-general for climate action, Raffaele Mauro Petriccione, says there may well be surprises ahead as the commissioners hammer out the final details of the ‘fit for 55’ package of climate policy reforms.

https://t.co/mqL3nVbV3H

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@J_Wettengel @BernhardPoetter @AnnaGumbau @urmigoswami @micha_bloss @pcanfin @alexandraendres @HaufeStephan @ntsafos @ClewNetwork @sejorg worth noting that journos not based in Brussels can apply for one-day accreditation here: https://t.co/qWeY6daMEk