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Takes one to know one, I guess.

But seriously, does Trump think DC wants or would ever allow him to “take over” our city, even if he wasn’t making up the rationale?

There are 234 petrochemical industry lobbyists in these plastics treaty negotiations. Polluters should not be allowed to write the rules. We've already had 70 years of self-regulation by the petrochem industry; we're here working on a treaty because that has had disastrous consequences for us all.

Greetings from Geneva!

Popular opinion: insisting on maintaining norms of business formal attire at a UN mtg in the summer is a form of climate denial. People are less likely to walk or bike if they can't dress comfortably, and venues must be air conditioned to suit(!) delegates wearing layers of clothing. #INC5.2 #UNEP

Chemicals in plastics are literally killing us. Here’s how we can break free In the theatre of global self-destruction, few spectacles rival the plastic paradox: nations drowning in toxic chemicals of their own making, like alchemists poisoning themselves with their own gold. As the world approaches the final U.N. Global Plastics Treaty negotiations in August, we face a defining choice: continue this dance of self-harm or break free from the plastic chains we have forged around our own necks.

In 2018 alone, exposure to DEHP, a plastic-softening phthalate, killed more than 356,000 people, nearly all from plastic use. Cardiovascular disease is just one way that plastic kills us. DEHP is just one of thousands of known plastic chemicals of concern. #INC5.2 www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Congratulations to Luxembourg🇱🇺 for officially ratifying the #BBNJ Treaty, taking us closer to the goal of 60 ratifications needed for the Treaty to enter into force.

Follow progress and urge more nations to join the #RaceForRatification. highseasalliance.org/treaty-ratif...

States that want a meaningful #PlasticsTreaty will have to use all the diplomatic tools at their disposal to bring the hold outs along. This isn't something that delegates in Geneva can solve on their own. It's time for presidents and prime ministers to step up and get to work. #BreakFreeFromPlastic

👀 If you could see #microplastics, you would see them EVERYWHERE.
Microplastics have been found in 🌬️air, the 🍏food, 🫁 organs🩸blood. The only way to reduce microplastics is to cut plastic production.
Watch & 🔁 to demand [world leaders/@your ministers] deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty!

The World Is Making Progress on Conservation—Without the United States Trump’s brand of isolationism and exceptionalism will be outlasted by the multilateral agreements made in the coming months.

foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/17/t...

The World Is Making Progress on Conservation—Without the United States Trump’s brand of isolationism and exceptionalism will be outlasted by the multilateral agreements made in the coming months.

Our new OpEd in Foreign Policy, as ocean conservation battles heat up at the #ISA, the #PlasticsTreaty and #BBNJ.

Trump’s brand of isolationism and exceptionalism will be outlasted by the multilateral agreements made in the coming months. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/17/t...

ICE is out of control. This is not law enforcement. It is state violence.

🚨NEW: When ICE raided a Californian farm yesterday, they snatched & disappeared a disabled US veteran who was in his car.

They smashed his window, peppered sprayed him & dragged him to the floor.

Listen to his wife & sister here, distraught. No-one will tell them where he is.

(🎥 ABC 7 News)

Current speaker from VC Defensa just dropped a full bag of spent tear gas canisters that were shot at demonstrators yesterday onto the pavement outside city hall here in Oxnard

Mapping the chemical complexity of plastics - Nature An inventory of 16,325 known plastic chemicals, including >4,200 hazardous compounds, supports the development of safer plastics.

With over 4000 chemicals of concern identified in plastics, it is painfully clear that plastics are a persistent danger to human health. Obviously we must ban dangerous chemicals, but to protect our health we need to reduce plastic production and use. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #PlasticsTreaty

Mapping the chemical complexity of plastics - Nature An inventory of 16,325 known plastic chemicals, including >4,200 hazardous compounds, supports the development of safer plastics.

As govts prepare for the conclusion(?!?) of #PlasticsTreaty negotiations next month, this paper on chemicals is important reading. Authors identified more than 4,200 chemicals of concern in plastics. Time to get toxics out of plastic packaging! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

40 years ago today, the #Greenpeace flagship Rainbow Warrior was bombed by French secret service agents. Two blasts destroyed the ship and murdered onboard photographer, Fernando Pereira.

#RW40 #nuclear #ship

"An absolute moral failure": Disability advocates react to Trump's Medicaid cuts "At the end of the day, this Congress lacks the courage to do the right thing."

"An absolute moral failure."

Around one in three disabled people are on Medicaid. I spoke to disability advocates about how devastated they are that the House passed the budget bill that will slash close to a trillion from Medicaid at @motherjones.com.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It is encouraging to see so many people sharing their anger about the #BigUglyBill, but FFS, if you are going to wait until November 2026 or 2028 to do anything more than complain about it on social media, things are going to get much, much worse than this.

Revolutions have been launched over much smaller outrages than this #BigUglyBill. #HappyIndependenceDay!

Court attacks and defunding NGOs: a growing pattern of silencing protest in Europe This week, Greenpeace had its first hearing in a Dutch court to use the EU’s new protections against these types of spurious lawsuits to shut down free speech – the first time this EU law will be put ...

On 10 July, it will be 40 years since the French secret service bombed the Rainbow Warrior, killing photographer Fernando Pereira

The powerful still seek to repress protest and silence critics

They have more weapons than bullets and bombs – defunding NGOs and tying them up in spurious legal fights

The U.S. Sends Lots of Plastic Trash Overseas. Malaysia Just Said No Thanks.

No one wants to be the world's dumping ground for our plastic waste. "policies are needed to help rein in plastic production" #INC5.2 #PlasticsTreaty www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/climate/plastic-recycling-malaysia-import-ban.html

Louisiana is latest state to redefine natural gas -- a planet-warming fossil fuel -- as green energy Louisiana is the latest state to redefine natural gas as green energy, even though it’s a fossil fuel that emits planet-warming greenhouse gases

Louisiana wants to define methane gas as "green" despite its well-known climate and health harms.

It’s “pure Orwellian greenwashing,” said Tim Donaghy, research director of Greenpeace USA.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Palestine Action spraying paint is not terrorism. As ministers abuse their powers, I feel a duty to speak out | Juliet Stevenson We have laws to deal with crimes linked to protest. What this is really about is ministers complicit in the Gaza atrocities seeking to silence dissent, says actor Juliet Stevenson

“To proscribe as “terrorist” a non-violent direct action group such as Palestine Action threatens the fundamental rights of freedom of expression, and of peaceful protest.”
— Juliet Stevenson
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why pay?👇

Why?! 🤔

Plastic is everywhere! #Microplastics have been found in 🌬️air, 🍎food & even in 🫀organs & 🩸blood.

The only way to reduce #microplastics are to cut plastic production.

Watch & 🔁 to tell world leaders to deliver a strong #PlasticsTreaty in August!

www.greenpeace.org/PlasticsTreaty

 "When I hear that some of our elected officials are suggesting that we're all just gonna die someday & that I should stop being so concerned about these budget cuts, I'm filled with rage. They're asking me to ignore my son's very most basic well-being and needs, & as his mother, I can't do that."

All empires fall

this is so amazing

More Americans voted for Senator Alex Padilla than for 48 of the 53 red state GOP U.S. Senators combined.

Investors warn The Home Depot: Toxic PVC is a business risk - Toxic-Free Future Investors urge The Home Depot to phase out PVC, citing growing health, environmental, and financial risks of PVC in building materials.

🗣️ Investors and community advocates are calling on The Home Depot to phase out toxic PVC plastic in packaging and building materials. The message is clear: protecting health and the environment is good business.

PVC is linked to cancer and environmental harm—and safer alternatives already exist.