Show Notes
After weeks of political machinations, Sir Keir Starmer is out and Andy Burnham is in at No.10 Downing Street. While details have remained elusive on the former Manchester mayor’s environmental policies, as he picks his cabinet we can start to understand what type of government he intends to run.
Dame Angela Eagle, the new DEFRA secretary, is not new to the department, having served as farming minister from September 2025 to June this year. But how green is she beyond that? Ed Miliband has been moved from his post as energy secretary to head up the Foreign Office, leaving Burnham “policy guru” Miatta Fahnbulleh heading up the government’s net zero policy. Where might that leave the controversial decision sitting on the DESNZ desk over oil and gas extraction in the North Sea?
On this week’s ECO Chamber, podcast host Tess Colley and ENDS Report’s senior reporter Shosha Adie, come together to get to grips with these questions.
PLUS:
Why nature campaigners in Dartmoor have said the government has ‘caved into conspiracy theories’ over pony grazing controls Who is Natural England’s new chief executive? And news that Thames Water creditors are battling to prevent nationalisation as Burnham arrives in No.10
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