Right to Know is a campaign and digital tool helping communities achieve health justice in the UK. Powered by @thecentriclab
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1 Oct 2021
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.
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21 Nov 2023
“The government and environment agency failed in their duty to restore and protect waterways from pollution, the high court has ruled”
theguardian.com/environment/…
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11 Nov 2023
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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24 Oct 2023
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.
24 Oct 2023
Appalling scenes coming in today from River Wye catchment 😥
Topsoil from fields left bare to autumn/winter storms - laden with nutrients from dumped manure by valley’s massive intensive 🐓 industry - just freely running off into the river system.
How to destroy an ecosystem 😖
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27 Sep 2023
Big thanks for @CGGcompany and @benbyford for working to help resolve some issues on right-to-know.org.
We’re back up and running 🙌
If you haven’t already, check out new pages of:
Polluters near you: right-to-know.org/pollutant-…
Landfills near you: right-to-know.org/waste-site…
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17 Sep 2023
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.
ncas.ac.uk/deprived-communit…
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12 Aug 2023
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.
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9 Aug 2023
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
👉🏾 right-to-know.org/pollutant-…
Known sites responsible for point source #airpollution:
➡️Prestige Kitchens &Bedrooms
➡️Tarmac Ltd
➡️FM Conway Ltd
➡️The Green Quarter
➡️Sam's Recycling
➡️Dave's Kitchens & Bedrooms
@Hillingdon @EalingCouncil have failed to tell us what they are doing to protect health.
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7 Aug 2023
Southall residents meet with Green Party deputy leader over concerns of living with poor air quality and being ignored by Ealing Council - ealing.news/environment/sout…
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4 Aug 2023
Coal plant closure led to rapid drop in heart attacks and strokes in this city, new study finds. euronews.com/green/2023/08/0…
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9 Jun 2023
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
levernews.com/forever-chemic…
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27 May 2023
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
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24 May 2023
“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? climate.gov/news-features/cl…
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22 May 2023
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.
inews.co.uk/news/environment…
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22 May 2023
"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."
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22 May 2023
"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."
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21 May 2023
"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." theneweuropean.co.uk/has-the…
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18 May 2023
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.
for more information on the sewage crisis in your local area you can check top-of-the-poops.org
you can find your local constituency, beach, river or shellfish area.
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8 May 2023
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.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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21 Apr 2023
I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, but this is still very alarming: colnevalleypark.org.uk/analy…
Any thoughts @Feargal_Sharkey @highamnews ?
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17 Apr 2023
"...informal neighborhoods face environmental and social challenges that harm people’s health, affecting the poorest and most marginalized communities the hardest." @sabahusmani for @EHNewsroom buff.ly/43FAVj9
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