Check out this event tomorrow "Challenges and Solutions to Prevent Disinformation in Environmental Policy Making" by @genevaenvironmentnetwork.org with @rachelrad.bsky.social from @ciel.org on corporate capture of science Register / watch online: www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/events/chall...

Really important story about how fossil fuels, plastics, and chemicals industry are desperately fighting to boost fossil fuel use via the deeply problematic chemical recycling and mass balance. A must read. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

#PFAS pollution is a growing crisis. Solving it requires coordinated action — & serious funding. The costs are massive, yet communities & ecosystems are left paying the bill 💸. 👉 That’s where the #PolluterPaysPrinciple (PPP) comes in: those responsible must cover the damage 👈

A new report from the @ec.europa.eu, published today, confirms what we already knew: the societal costs of PFAS pollution are enormous! 💶The Commission estimates that inaction on PFAS could cost society up to €1.7 trillion by 2050. www.politico.eu/article/fore...

It’s time to hold polluters accountable✳️ This briefing provides practical ways to implement the Polluter-Pays Principle, providing policymakers with guidance to effectively tackle #PFAS crisis ➡️ eeb.org/en/library/h... @clientearth.bsky.social @ciel.org Observatory of the Polluter-Pays Principle

The EU "Leaders' Retreat" on 12/2 will address #deregulation demands proposed by Italian Prime Minister Meloni and German Chancellor Merz Virtually all of these proposals are longstanding demands of industry #lobbyists, promoted by BusinessEurope and the European Round Table for Industry (ERT)... 😤

Red Alert: mid-February EU summit aims to accelerate EU deregulation 🚨 EU "Leaders' Retreat" on 12 February, in rural Belgium, will discuss radical proposals to accelerate the #deregulation of EU & national level legislation ⚠️ Read more at #DeregulationWatch ➡️ corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

...[but] the pyrolysis method has an environmental impact: “Pyrolysis oils are heavily contaminated with additives. They can release dioxins and other persistent pollutants that affect people’s health. It makes little sense to turn waste into hazardous waste."

"Industry and oil-producing countries push chemical recycling [pyrolysis] to preserve plastic growth and fossil profits,” Lee Bell, technical and policy adviser at the NGO International Pollutants Elimination Network (IPEN) told Voxeurop: voxeurop.eu/en/ghost-rec...

Forever chemicals are so long-lasting + difficult to remove that very high levels can mean some water just is no longer usable as a drinking water source. With so much pressure on water resources, we cannot afford to let PFAS pollution build. share.google/zUhnlzVq2XgA... 2/2

⛔ A majority of ENVI members in the EU Parliament today voted yes to deregulate new GMOs. This means to sell out consumer & farmer rights, health/env safety, the interests of independent seed companies.. to a handful of pesticide producers. 👉 The bulk is from Conservatives (PPE) and far right (PfE)

Who lobbies the EU? Not just corporations — but a whole ecosystem of actors: NGOs and trade unions, but mostly corporate lobbyists, trade and industry groups, consultancies, law firms, and think tanks. 🔦It’s time to shine a light on their murky world! Watch the 3rd video of our new series.

Super important interview from Dr Marcos A. Orellana, UN special rapporteur on toxic chemicals and human rights #ToxicFreeFuture now!

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

💸 As for what the EU governments should do, out our previous thread is here. bsky.app/profile/corp... /ends

Don't underestimate how many Americans are resisting: www.democracynow.org/2026/1/20/mi.... Here's their own #bigbeautifulboycott of companies that back MAGA bigbeautifulboycott.us Regularly updated & with political affiliations and conflicts of interest eg see entries for Nestle, Goldman Sachs. 8/

⚽ Football supporters call people to boycott the 2026 World Cup held in the USA unless the matches are moved. Given the brutality of ICE, travelling there as a fan doesn’t look so tempting right now. www.boycottusa2026.org/2025/04/23/i... #BoycottUSA2026 #Boycott2026WorldCup #fuckICE 7/

🧠 Check out these campaigns: ctrl-alt-reclaim.org to reclaim the digital world "Where the users come first, not multi-millionaire's profits"; and 'Media Revolution against algorithmic control' mediarevolution.org 6/

Europeans are finding and using tech alternatives: (Obviously links are not endorsements!) See european-alternatives.eu ; euroalternative.co ; www.switch-to.eu/en ; 5/

The Make Amazon Pay campaign says "Amazon is remaking the global economy in its own image — extractive, exploitative and authoritarian. But we won’t let it get away with that." Support them here: makeamazonpay.com 4/

GAFAM refers to Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft; but Facebook is now Meta so their acronym spells MMAGA. People vs Big Tech petition for the EU to break up Google: peoplevsbig.tech/standupursula/ CEO on Big Tech’s rollback of digital rights: corporateeurope.org/en/topics/di... 3/

💅 A consumer boycott is brewing against cosmetics brand Estée Lauder after Ronald Lauder, billionaire Trump donor was named as the figure who persuaded the President he needed Greenland. Lauder has investments in the territory. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... 2/

Disappointed you don't hold billions in US Treasury Bonds so you can dump them? 😉 You can still help declare independence from Trump and his oligarch enablers... here's a few ideas on how to join many in Canada and Denmark in boycotting Trump’s MAGA madness. #BoycottMAGA 🧵 1/

6/ We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. 🇪🇺 Commission needs to stop doing bidding of big business & get back to regulating in public interest. If you support our work to challenge this agenda, get our newsletter: corporateeurope.org/en/newsletter Thanks again to @cartoonralph.bsky.social

5/ And the 🇪🇺 Commission looks set to continue its turbo-charged #deregulation agenda. There are rumours of more omnibuses, while other much-needed rules in the pipeline now look as it they will be substantially weakened, for example on #PFAS or #REACH reform. euobserver.com/health-and-s...

4/ There have also been numerous so-called “reality checks” which feed into the #deregulation #Omnibus process. But these 🇪🇺 Commission “reality checks” are pseudo consultations, dominated by industry, and operating on ridiculously short timelines. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/07/c...

3/ The #deregulation chainsaw is being wielded in several ways 10 omnibuses (so far) have been announced by 🇪🇺 Commission 🌍 Sustainability 🧪 Chemicals 🐝 Pesticides 🌐 Digital 🚜 Agri 💥 Defence 🏭 Pollution These rules are under attack See #Omnibus tracker: cloud.corporateeurope.org/s/RjrwKPiTmm...

2/ The 🇪🇺 Commission & industry both like to talk about “simplification” of EU laws. Other favourite phrases include “streamlining” or “cutting red tape”. But let’s be clear: it’s cutting social, green, & digital protections. See more at #Deregulation Watch: corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

1/ The 🇪🇺 Commission is taking a political chainsaw to hard won social, environmental, and digital protections. We need #RulestoProtect not #Deregulation. Check out our new cartoons below by @cartoonralph.bsky.social and spread the word!

📣 Today MEPs decide whether to seek the ECJ's opinion on compatibility EU-#Mercosur with EU Treaties. 👇 #Farmers protesting in Strasbourg, deal will increase unfair competition. It will also increase pesticide industry profits, incl from toxic pesticides banned in EU www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92B...

1. Cancel the EU-US ‘trade agreement’ from July 2025. It was humiliating and unequal in the first place. The EU agreed to high tariffs to avoid astronomic tariffs. With Greenland, Trump has brought back sky-high tariffs on countries with governments that don’t support his conquest.

While Trump boasts and flexes his muscles with Tech Bros and other allies in Davos, EU governments are meeting to discuss how to respond to his plans to take over Greenland and his trade war. Will they rise to the challenge, or will they once again bow to Trump? Here’s what they should do:

Don’t be sheep 🐑 NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone Be a black sheep ✊ 2nd ep of our video series out now

‼️ Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality. Read Oxfam's new report ahead of #Davos 🔗 www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich #WEF26

“The report shows that really we are not just talking about some money that buys luxury goods of consumption, but it's really money that buys politics, elections, that buys judges, that influence politics,“ Chiara Putaturo from Oxfam told EUobserver.

EU-MERCOSUR betrays farmers (those producing actual food, not monoculture soy) on both sides, as well as the environment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=D92B...

Forever-chemical firms continue forever EU lobbying

If fracking were to be permitted in the UK, as proposed by Reform, some of the country's most exquisite countryside would be impacted, as shown in the British Geological Survey diagram below: share.google/4iPmjendxnR7...

Happy anniversary @corporateeurope.org We all work together to make PFAS history!

. @corporateeurope.org joined forces with a team of international journalists including us at Watershed for The Forever Lobbying Project - exposing industry lobbying to prevent an EU PFAS ban, "bigger than anything the tobacco industry have been able to pull together." share.google/TGvHaj8ITpgy...

It’s not too late! You can take action today for a comprehensive universal #PFAS restriction: ➡️ Individuals can sign the @wemoveeurope.bsky.social petition to demand a #ToxicFreeFuture: corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-... ➡️ CSOs can join the #BanPFAS manifesto: banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

Find out more about the latest state of play on proposed #PFAS restriction in this series of recent op eds published across Europe, including with CSO allies: 🇫🇷 www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... 🇨🇿 denikreferendum.cz/clanek/23816... 🇵🇹 www.publico.pt/2026/01/12/a...

Commissioner Roswall told us that Commission “ensured transparency & accountability in all lobby & stakeholder meetings & proceedings”. COM also has obligations under EU lobby register. Today we have written to ask how "accountability" has been demanded of Plastics Europe’s lobbying.

❌ Despite the intense criticism of EU fluoropolymer #PFAS industry, we see Plastics Europe enjoyed much greater lobby access to Commissioners’ cabinets on varied issues in last year. 2025 = 11 meetings 2024 = 1 2023 = 6 2022 = 1 2021 = 1 2020 = 3 www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/pla...

❌ Or recent industry-friendly @europarl.europa.eu report on fluoropolymer #PFAS which: ➡️ risks pre-empting far more detailed ECHA work ➡️ only interviewed industry ➡️ uses a too-narrow lens to assess fluoropolymers ➡️ has research "limitations" ➡️ wrongly says F-gases are already regulated enough

❌ Or see how countries behind the original proposal (🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰) have already proposed weaker approaches on #PFAS manufacturing for exports + many new derogations from ban. ❌ Or the 🇪🇺 chemicals agency leaving 8 sectors out of its evaluation. chemsec.org/pfas-restric...

But today, after intense corporate lobbying, proposed #PFAS restriction is fragile. ❌ Take 🇪🇺 Commission’s emphasis on tackling consumer PFAS uses (cosmetics, waterproof clothing...) but indicating a far weaker approach on industrial sources of pollution. corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/c...

The work was featured in media outlets across Europe; it has won at least one award & been nominated for others: foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/ The impacts have been far and wide, including prompting a new programme to empower rigorous journalism: foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/imp...