09.03.2026 14:41 —
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Fantastic to start to hear from lawyers working with #PFAS affected communities in Belgium, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, France as well as Robert Billot who took on DuPont in US and started anti PFAS litigation
05.03.2026 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 powerful documentaries on #PFAS showing now, looking at 3Ms toxic legacy in firefighting foams, in Australia and France (and around the world), as well as other PFAS, in other products, by other companies, and how communities are confronting this
05.03.2026 17:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Good to hear @martinhojsik.bsky.social and @sigridfriis.bsky.social talking about the need for urgent action on #PFAS, how polluters must pay, and how we need phase outs now!
05.03.2026 16:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In European Parliament where MEPs and civil society including PFAS-affected communities are discussing the fight for justice and for a #PFAS ban
05.03.2026 16:43 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
It’s time to get tough with corporate lobbies, not peaceful protestors.
#PFAS producers & their allies who lobby to delay, weaken, or derail the proposed ban on PFAS have had huge access to the Commission & other EU decision-makers and it’s time for this to stop.
We need #ToxicFreePolitics now!
A short civil conversation took place & then 6 police vans arrived. And they arrested the corporate polluters…
Damn! That isn't what happened. 6 police vans turned up … against peaceful protestors who just wanted to explain how #PFAS have polluted their communities & why they want an EU ban.
When we got to Chemours' office building, some citizens peacefully entered and requested to visit their office to drop off bottles of #PFAS beer, a symbol of the contamination that the citizens of Dordrecht in 🇳🇱 and elsewhere experience, day to day.
05.03.2026 13:50 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Then we took the community representatives on a lobby tour of 🇪🇺 quarter to show how #PFAS corporate lobby operates in Brussels: its access to decision-makers, and how some have relied upon “misleading, fearmongering, exaggerated, or potentially dishonest” lobbying, as #ForeverLobbying Project showed
05.03.2026 13:50 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Even though President von der Leyen is happy to meet with CEFIC & chemicals industry in Antwerp to tell them how she is delivering on their agenda, it seems like she has no time to meet people living day-to-day with impacts of #PFAS pollution.
05.03.2026 13:50 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Busy day in Brussels.
Proud to be part of the energetic protest this morning outside the European Commission together with citizens affected by #PFAS #ForeverChemicals from across Europe - 🇳🇱 🇫🇷 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 - and @eeb.org
Together we demand a ban on PFAS now!
En 2025, les lobbys de la chimie ont obtenu près de 200 rdvs avec des hauts fonctionnaires européens, dans le but d’assouplir la règlementation sur les produits chimiques dangereux.
Ma dernière chronique pour @blast-info.fr avec les éclairages de @vickycann.bsky.social
youtu.be/28TSHUNYbN8?...
🚨 The EU’s Industrial Accelerator Act #IAA is finally out:
🚘 The result of heavy lobbying, led by the steel + car industries (Séjourné's door was always open)
🏭 Claims to promote the green transition, but really is about slashing permitting rules that protect people + nature.
Expect ⬆️ pollution 💨
Horrific.
And apparently no accountability for those who ordered this missile strike.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
If you haven't already, now really is the time to sign the ECI to have the EU suspend the association agreement with Israel!!
eci.ec.europa.eu/055/public/#...
We were pleased to take part in this overview film about the power of the EU chemicals lobby.
Our recent report on the #REACH chemicals lobby is featured: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...
Also presented is the great work of @generationsfutures.fr.
See the film below ⬇️ ⬇️
Corporate lobbyists in Brussels have a playbook.
4 tactics they use to shape EU laws without us noticing:
1️⃣ Repeat until it sounds like consensus
2️⃣ Throw money at it
3️⃣ Blur the lines between regulator and regulated
4️⃣ Delay, distract, greenwash
The more we know it, the less we fall for it!
@vickycann.bsky.social autrice du dernier rapport @corporateeurope.org révèle que les lobbys de la chimie ont obtenu près de 200 réunions avec des hauts fonctionnaires européens, dans le but affiché d’assouplir les règles sur les produits chimiques dangereux.
@aidoudadel.bsky.social
Industry Support at All Costs? 🇪🇺
Our new report shows how InvestEU is scaling up public guarantees while undermining a just transition. 🧵👇
🔗 Read more: counter-balance.org/publications...
A geographical silhouette of Iran with text over it “Trump bombs Iran - the UK must oppose it”
Trump has attacked Iran, in a brazen US-Israeli act of aggression that is still ongoing.
Our statement: stoptrump.org.uk/trump-bombs-...
Please check out this important new book by @bethgardiner.bsky.social if you are interested in Big Plastic and the corporate tactics that have seen us hooked on this fossil-fuel derived product.
26.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The past year dirty industry has pushed for + won:
🔑 Increased access to EU decision-making
✂️ Cuts to workers rights + environmental protections
💶 More public subsidies
⚡ Speeding up dirty infrastructure permitting
Ingredients for bigger corporate 💰, but a failed 🇪🇺
Time to fight back ✊
16 different departments were lobbied, but which Commissioner and their cabinet was the most welcoming?
🇫🇷 Stéphane Séjourné (DG GROW, 131 meetings)
🇳🇱 Wopke Hoekstra (DG CLIMA, 60)
🇪🇸 Teresa Ribera (DG COMP) co-coordinates the #CID with Séjourné + Hoekstra, but only had 20 meetings
The CID promised to introduce/alter/accelerate swathes of new + existing files, making it a key target for dirty industry lobbying. The files with most meetings:
🏭 CID: 162
🛃 CBAM: 145
♻️ Circular Economy Act: 65
⏩ Industrial Accelerator Act: 53
🚗 Automotive Action Plan: 45
#DirtyIndustrialDeal
Among lobby groups with 5 or more meetings on the CID and its related files, the metals & mining sector dominated:
🤝 41% of meetings
🏅 6 out of the top 10 most frequent visitors
Next highest was energy (13%) and automotive (11%)
#DirtyIndustrialDeal
corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
The 🇪🇺 met with ±500 different business groups and their reps. The top 5:
🏭 EUROFER - 39 meetings
🏭 ArcelorMittal - 18
☢️ EDF - 12
🏭 European Aluminium - 11
🏭 Cement Europe - 11
These big polluting industries have all lobbied for #deregulation.
Read more 📖: corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
🗓️ In the year since the CID was released, top Commission staff have had 750+ lobby meetings on it, more than three per working day.
👔 90% w/ business interests
🔎 5.5% w/ NGOs
👷 1% w/ trade unions
Corporate interests have engineered a #DirtyIndustrialDeal
👀 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/c...
