💚 Need to #greenwash your toxic portfolio? 🔥 With these 6 easy steps, you’re guaranteed to succeed and will have your company looking sustainable in no time!

👀 You haven’t missed that we recently updated the SIN List with over 20 new substances, have you? 🧡 A 𝗯𝗶𝗴 𝗧𝗛𝗔𝗡𝗞𝗦 to our friends in the #ZeroPM project for helping us identify these chemicals. 👉🏿 See all the newly added substances here: sinlist.chemsec.org/persistent-m...

💚 Did you ever wonder how chemical companies are able to turn even their dirtiest laundry into something clean; how nasty, toxic chemicals can become green and sustainable? 🔥 Wonder no more: chemsec.org/reports/6-ea...

😭 European chemical industry is hurting, and it's blaming 𝗴𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀! 🔎 But the three main reasons why the chemical sector is taking a beating are: ↳ High energy prices ↳ Lack of demand ↳ Chinese competition 💚 Not green regulations. Still this is what they’re screaming to the #EU Commission

🥳 Today’s the big day! Join us at 4pm CET for the ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕊𝕔𝕠𝕣𝕖 2025 Premiere, where we'll rank the top 40 chemical producers on their chemical footprint. Don't miss it! 👉🏾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6E2...

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🔬 Part of the problem is that standard chemical testing doesn’t adequately detect all neurotoxic effects. The commonly used tests focus on more short-term toxicity. ❌ This results in major data gaps. 💡 But now, there is a way forward: chemsec.org/neurotoxican...

🤔 Here is a crazy thought: what if we took the current logic of EU #chemicals legislation and applied it to traffic rules... How would that play out?

🧠 Unlike other harmful chemicals like PFAS, 𝗻𝗲𝘂𝗿𝗼𝘁𝗼𝘅𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘁𝘀 rarely make headlines — yet they’re among the most devastating. 💥 By adding three neurotoxicants to the 𝗦𝗜𝗡 𝗟𝗶𝘀𝘁, we demonstrate that some should be treated as “equivalent level of concern”. 👉🏾 chemsec.org/neurotoxican...

🇪🇺 After a negative opinion was issued by the Commission’s Regulatory Scrutiny Board a few weeks ago and Ursula Von der Leyen publicly admitting that simplification is about deregulation, we’re not the only ones worried about what will happen with the EU’s landmark chemicals legislation. (1/5)

🧡 Join us for a one-hour deep dive into the science, methodology, and policy relevance of the SIN List update and learn all about the newly added chemicals! 👉🏾 Register for the #webinar: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... (1/3)

🚨 Investors are sounding the alarm on PFAS. The decision to split the EU-wide PFAS restriction and leave out eight major use categories, combined with vague discussions about “emission control” instead of a full phase-out, is causing concern: (1/3)

🚘 What if the EU's chemicals legislation applied to traffic rules? 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗗𝗿𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗔𝗰𝘁 ↳ Stop signs are now “suggestions.” Drivers can roll through if they feel confident. The same applies to speed limits. Each driver decides what feels safe for them. (1/4)

🚩 Harmful PFAS substances have been found in the blood of 24 EU leaders representing 19 countries, confirming that no one is immune to exposure from these persistent “forever chemicals.” Read the full press release here: chemsec.org/eu-leaders-c...

🐟 After years of negotiations, the EU finally struck a deal last week to update their rules on water pollution. The deal is progress on paper, but something about it seems… fishy.

🧠 Scientists have begun to argue that chemical pollution poses a similar threat to climate change. 👱‍♀️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar, head of ChemSec, agrees. Here she sets out the evidence. ➡️ Read the full article here: chemsec.org/chemicals-an...

💧 Next week, the EU will meet to discuss how to halt the rising chemical pollution in Europe's lakes and rivers. 🇪🇺 Yet members states are procrastinating, hoping to put off monitoring and cleanup efforts for decades. 👇🏽 Europe’s waters can’t wait — here are 4 priorities for the EU to tackle:

🪓 The European Chemicals Agency recently announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses. 👇🏻 Here are five reasons why this decision is a complete disaster.

The #SOTEU speech has started, shall we guess how many times we'll hear the word "competitiveness"? We need #rulestoprotect people and the environment, not profit! multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstream...

🔴 PFAS ('forever chemicals') found in wild fish across multiple EU countries! New EEB report shows that: 🧪 Most samples exceed proposed safety limits ⚠️ Some exceed by 10,000x 🕰️ Member States want to delay action until 2051 Link in comments ⬇️ #PFAS #Environment #PublicHealth #ForeverChemicals

📢 ECHA recently published an update to the EU-wide #PFAS restriction proposal, which included some pretty eye-catching changes. 🧡 In case you think 3,544 pages is a bit long and you don’t have time to read the whole thing — don’t worry. ChemSec has done it for you! 👉🏾 chemsec.org/pfas-restric...

💬 “𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘺 𝘱𝘪𝘱𝘦𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦” —unnamed ChemSec employee. 🏭 ChemSec on a field trip to the Perstorp chemical plant! For some of us, it was a first-time visit to a chemical production site. For the old-timers… not so much. 🙏 Regardless, it was a very interesting visit!

📉 Europe’s flagship #water law set ambitious targets to clean up our waters by 2015. But now, a decade past the deadline, chemical pollution is rising. Today, less than 30% of Europe’s surface waters are in good chemical condition — and that number is getting worse, not better. (1/2)

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: The European Chemicals Agency just announced that it will split the EU-wide #PFAS restriction, leaving out eight categories of PFAS uses. This has never happened before — and it’s a dangerous precedent. (1/2)

👀 The international law firm Steptoe LLP demanded that ChemSec censor an ad for a safer chemical on ChemSec Marketplace, our popular tool connecting suppliers of safer chemicals with companies seeking alternatives. (1/3)

🤠 A new study shows legacy #PFAS like PFOA and PFOS are finally declining in milk thanks to restrictions. 🫨 But “replacement” PFAS are spiking — some by more than 250%. 🥛 The lesson? Banning single substances won’t cut it. We must #BanPFAS as a family of chemicals to see real change.

😮 Is your feed flooded with gee-whizz, super-duper #PFAS clean-up technologies? 🧻 We all hope innovations can clean up the PFAS mess. Indeed, they are vital. But it doesn’t matter how much PFAS we take out if we keep on pumping them into the environment.

👀 Is Europe’s chemical industry teaming up with the USA? 🧐 Cefic, the trade association, has joined with their US equivalent to demand “simplification” (i.e. deregulation). 🔔 Alarm bells! The ACC position is basically that if REACH was a country, they’d nuke it. 👁️ We will be watching...

🇺🇸 American chemical giants Chemours, DuPont and Corteva have agreed to pay $875 million to the state of New Jersey to settle environmental claims, including #PFAS pollution. 💬 New Jersey officials have called it the largest environmental settlement ever achieved by a single state.

🐝 Ecologists and other scientists studying #biodiversity have identified five main drivers of the ongoing decline of the planet’s species — habitat destruction, overexploitation of natural resources, climate change, invasive alien species and 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻. (1/3)

🍼 Everyday items like electronics, scented products, plastics, clothes, and food packaging often contain 𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗼𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲-𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗿𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹𝘀 that alter your hormonal system. 🤔 Which is the first chemical or consumer product that pops into your mind when you think of hormone disruptors?

💥 Wednesday’s decision to weaken the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) marks huge a step backwards for chemical transparency and accountability.

🤔 Two weeks ago, the EU Commission released their Chemicals Action Plan and some things are still nagging at us. 🚩 Can the Commission keep consumers safe from hazardous chemicals or are they just bending to the will of corporate interests? 🔗 chemsec.org/chemicals-ac...

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👀 We’ve updated the ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕊𝕖𝕔 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 and added a completely new sector — 𝗙-𝗴𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀.

🩸 Today, environment ministers from across Europe are testing their blood for #PFAS. Why? Because ‘forever chemicals’ are everywhere – and leadership starts with facing the facts. 💫 Big thanks to @eeb.org and the Danish Ministry of Environment for making this happen! 🔗 Full story: bit.ly/3IhZpsf

🚨 Yesterday’s release of the chemicals ‘Omnibus’ package shows a shocking shift: from protecting people to protecting industry. 💬 “This is a textbook case of confusing simplification with deregulation,” says ChemSec’s Head of Policy, Theresa Kjell. 📖 Read the article: chemsec.org/commission-d...

💯 As global pressure mounts to eliminate harmful #PFAS chemicals, we’ve just added 100+ new safer alternatives to PFAS to the ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕊𝕖𝕔 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 — making it easier than ever for companies to phase out ‘forever chemicals’ from products and processes!

🤩 ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕞𝕊𝕖𝕔 𝕄𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕥𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕖 just got a major upgrade! The platform now features more safer alternatives to hazardous chemicals than ever before.

👮🏻‍♂️ Yesterday, an Italian court sentenced eleven chemical company executives to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS.

👉🏼 Read the letter from ChemSec’s Jonatan Kleimark in today's Guardian: www.theguardian.com/environment/... 💬 "A partial ban on PFAS in consumer products only would be a short‑sighted capitulation to commercial interests and a free‑market ideology that opposes all regulation."

🤐 Brussels is keeping this quiet – because it makes them look foolish. 💚 China is adopting corporate sustainability rules very similar to those the EU is trying to weaken. In fact they are modelled on the CSRD. ⁉️ So why is the EU going in the opposite direction? More 👇👇 and on our website.

👉🏼 𝗦𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝘂𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘁: mailchi.mp/chemsec/sin-... 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻: ✅ How EU leaders are steering the future of chemicals legislation ✅ Why investors and frontrunning companies support stronger rules ✅ What new chemical risks are emerging — and the latest SIN List updates

🙏 As the PFAS crisis grows ever more urgent, can a miracle innovation save the day? 😢 We hate to break it to you: it won’t. Technologies that remove PFAS from the environment are necessary, but far from sufficient. ⚖️ Anne-Sofie Bäckar examines the limits of remediation: chemsec.org/pfas-why-cle...

🦶🔫 Brussels is about to shoot itself in the foot. 🇨🇳 To compete with China, it wants to dilute green rules for companies. But... 1️⃣ China has its own, better CSRD. 2️⃣ Industry likes the status quo. 3️⃣ Politicians & lobbyists are out of tune with business. 👉 More here: chemsec.org/europe-has-t...

💥 ChemSec is making headlines by publishing LEAKED EMAILS from the company at the heart of the PFAS “forever chemicals” lobbying campaign. 🎦 Watch this short video and read the EXPLOSIVE emails here! lnkd.in/dUC4mhqD *This may be a satire – you decide...

🫱🏾‍🫲🏻 ChemSec coordinates a global, investor-led initiative focused on reducing the risks of hazardous chemicals. 💰 The initiative brings together 70+ institutional investors with over $18 trillion under management or advice. 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵’𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘎𝘋𝘗 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘢 (!) (1/2)

👉🏼 ChemSec’s Jonatan Kleimark has a letter in the Financial Times: www.ft.com/content/5ae7... 💬 He writes: “Cooling systems are the main source of TFA, the spread of which is of concern. It is time these went the way of leaded petrol."

🌈 If applying feels this good, imagine how it feels to work at ChemSec! 🤩 We’re currently on the lookout for a 𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗦𝗧, 𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗘𝗥 𝗼𝗿 𝗘𝗡𝗩𝗜𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗔𝗟 𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗦𝗧 to join our dynamic team. You don’t want to miss this opportunity. 👉🏾 See the full #job posting and apply: chemsec.org/chemsec-is-l...

🌱 Today is the #UN #WorldEnvironmentDay, which this year joins the #BeatPlasticPollution campaign to spotlight the plastic pollution crisis we are facing. ♻️ To put an end to this crisis, we need to refuse, reduce, reuse and recycle. But we also need to 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰𝘀. #Environment