Stéphane Horel

Speakers The Global Investigative Journalism Conference — designed by journalists for journalists — is famous for its focus on practical, advanced reporting techniques.

🗣️ Parmi les intervenants francophones attendus à #GIJC25 :

@laurentrichard.bsky.social de @forbidden-stories.bsky.social

Pierre Leibovici de @disclose.ngo

@stephanehorel.bsky.social de @lemonde.fr

Mohammad Bassiki de SIRAJ

gijc2025.org/speakers/

Impact As more pollution hotspots and local scandals keep being revealed, the PFAS crisis has reached epic proportions. Scientists have called it “the worst pollution crisis humanity has ever faced”.

🌍 The 'Forever' project revealing the scale of PFAS crisis has achieved huge impact, beginning in 2023 and ongoing in '25.

Credit to @stephanehorel.bsky.social who spearheaded & co-ordinated this massive two-part, multi-award winning, law-changing project foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/impact/
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‘Independent’ expert who helped shape global vaping debate was paid thousands by Juul A Greek physician who has extensively studied nicotine was paid by Juul to lobby against Israeli vaping regulations. He didn’t disclose the payment in his research.

An influential Greek cardiologist who has helped shaped the global debate on vaping was paid thousands of euros from ecig giant Juul via an offshore company he co-owns, myself, @ebersi.bsky.social and @stephanehorel.bsky.social can reveal www.theexamination.org/articles/juu...

The afterlife of a ghost-written paper: How corporate authorship shaped two decades of glyphosate safety discourse Corporate ghost-writing is a form of scientific fraud: a paper is falsely presented as the work of people other than its actual authors. When such pap…

Some people dismiss ghost-writing as inconsequential. In our latest paper, Sasha Kaurov & I show that is NOT the case. Thanks to @sfoucart.bsky.social @stephanehorel.bsky.social who first alerted me to the #Monsanto Papers and also Paul Thacker.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Really good panel about reporting on big industries like tobacco, fossils fuels and the "vast harm" they create.

Ben Hallman of @theexamination.org speaks of “corporate determinants of health” and how industry shapes public health narratives.

@journalismfestival.com #ijf25

Addressing the risks from Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) - Committees - UK Parliament Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a large, complex group of about 14,000 synthetic chemicals used in a wide variety of everyday products. For example, PFAS are used to keep food...

So please to see this parliamentary PFAS inquiry kick off today. So important we understand this better...
committees.parliament.uk/work/9078/ad...

David Van Reybrouck, écrivain : « Le conflit en RDC reflète le monde d’aujourd’hui » L’écrivain belge remonte, dans un entretien au « Monde », au passé colonial de la République démocratique du Congo et du Rwanda pour expliquer les dynamiques à l’œuvre entre ces deux pays ainsi que leurs différends, tandis qu’une partie de l’Est congolais est envahie par le M23, un groupe armé soutenu par le Rwanda.

David Van Reybrouck, écrivain : « Le conflit en RDC reflète le monde d’aujourd’hui »

Un grand bravo à notre confère du Monde @ericalbert1.bsky.social qui a reçu le prix Reportage et à Manon Bachelot et Poline Tchoubar pour le prix Jeunes journalistes 🤩

@raphaelleaubert.bsky.social @garydagorn.fr Luc Martinon @thomassteffen.bsky.social et moi-même sommes honorés et heureux d'avoir reçu le prix Louise Weiss du journalisme européen pour le #ForeverPollution Project.
Merci à l’Association des journalistes européens et à @lemonde.fr !

Bravo @stephanehorel.bsky.social et @raphaelleaubert.bsky.social et leurs confrères du @lemonde.fr lauréats du #PrixLouiseWeiss catégorie Décryptage

« Nous sommes tous contaminés ». PFAS : L'humanité face à un danger inédit et invisible C’est l’un des plus grands scandales sanitaires de notre époque mais aussi la crise de pollution la plus importante que l’humanité n’a jamais eu à affronter. Je veux vous parler ici des PFAS. Une famille de 10 000 produits chimiques qu’on appelle les “Polluants éternels”

« Nous sommes tous contaminés ». PFAS : L'humanité face à un danger inédit et invisible

#Ecologie #Pollution

« Interdisez les PFAS maintenant », demandent des victimes de la pollution à Ursula von der Leyen Les société civile et les riverains de sites pollués se sont mobilisés ces derniers jours à travers l’Europe en réaction aux révélations du « Monde » et de ses partenaires sur le coût de l’inaction f...

www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

To put this in context, a US-wide study, published in @thelancet.bsky.social finds an association between PFAS in tap water & cancers of endocrine, digestive, respiratory systems, the oral cavity, pharynx, & skin. We cannot afford to fall behind on controlling PFAS. id.elsevier.com/as/authoriza...

PFAS : en France, le coût de la décontamination largement sous-estimé D’après l’estimation conduite par « Le Monde » et ses partenaires, la France devra consacrer 12 milliards d’euros par an à l’élimination des polluants éternels si le TFA, très présent dans l’eau et qu...

Dépollution des #PFAS en France : la métropole de #Lyon, la régie et le syndicat Rhône-Sud ont chiffré leurs dépenses à + de 9 millions d’euros sur 5 ans. Mais ça, c’était avant d’apprendre la contamination de leurs ressources en eau par le #TFA.
Nos révélations ⬇️
www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeur...

Inside the unprecedented lobbying effort to sway the EU on PFAS “forever chemicals” As the European Union considers a historic ban on PFAS, it confronts an industry lobbying hard to keep them on the market. Some Turkish companies have also joined the fight.

Unprecedented lobbying effort to sway the EU on PFAS “forever chemicals”

As the European Union considers a historic ban on #PFAS, it confronts an industry lobbying hard to keep them on the market. Some Turkish companies have also joined the fight.

#foreverlobbying

theblacksea.eu/investigatio...

We're grateful to YOU @purpleraes.bsky.social, and very proud that our work is now part of the UCSF Industry Documents Library which has generated so much knowledge on corporate tactics!

Read our paper, “PFAS Phase Out: A Prerequisite for a Water Resilient Europe,” highlighting the threat that PFAS pose to human health, the environment, and the future of Europe’s water services.

The EU needs to act now to secure a water-resilient Europe.

📄 More here: lnkd.in/e-8huQQT

PFAS contamination is driving up water treatment costs—€18B/year for drinking water alone. Without a full ban & the polluter-pays principle, consumers will bear the burden.

Prevention is key to safeguarding Europe’s water. Read more: www.eureau.org/resources/pu...

@jessikaroswall.bsky.social

Public Inspection: Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment: Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment: Perfluorooctanoic Acid and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid

Big news: A new EPA study finds that millions of acres of farmland are likely polluted w/ #PFAS from sewage sludge spread over the fields as fertilizer—a practice EPA has long promoted. The implications for our food system are hard to overstate. h/t @ewg

www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...

The Forever Lobbying Project The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.

ICYM this staggering effort by the Forever Lobbying Project. A truly stunning effort 👏 foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

Combien coûte la pollution aux #PFAS ? Pendant plus d'un an, les 46 journalistes du #ForeverLobbying, dont la @rtbf.be, ont calculé le montant faramineux de la pire pollution à laquelle l'humanité ait jamais été confrontée, causée par le "poison du siècle" ⬇️
foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org and at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky. The word “Report” is highlighted and then followed by the bigger words: “Chemical reaction”, followed by the subtitle, in smaller font: “Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction” At the right of the words is an infinity mathematical sign, an Erlenmeyer flask and the representation of PFAS molecules. The background of the image is green.

We need to stop PFAS pollution accumulating further.
Our new report & collaboration with #ForeverLobbying Project exposes the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction.
We have to win it!

Read it here & sign the petition to #BanPFAS 👉 corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-...

🧵 Our results show:

@leanahosea.bsky.social
@rachelsalvidge.bsky.social
@journalismarena.eu
@corporateeurope.bsky.social
@vickycann.bsky.social

@jasperbeen.bsky.social
@investico.bsky.social
@emielwoutersen.bsky.social
@tarjeils.bsky.social
@adelgado.bsky.social
@eldiario.es
@datadista.com
@latule.bsky.social
@alekspogo.bsky.social
@etc.se
@danielvarjo.bsky.social
@maj-like-june.bsky.social
@cpshaw.bsky.social

@romanebonneme.bsky.social
@olafverhaeghe.bsky.social
@tijd.be
@zuzanavlasata.bsky.social
@denikreferendum.cz
@staffanindk.bsky.social
@hackette7.bsky.social
@leosal.bsky.social
@raphaelleaubert.bsky.social
@lemonde.fr
@danieldrepper.bsky.social
@annaviolato.bsky.social

About - The Forever Pollution project The Forever Pollution Project is a cross-border and interdisciplinary journalism investigation launched in 2022 to track the PFAS crisis across Europe.

A follow-up of the #ForeverPollution Project, the #ForeverLobbying Project received financial support from the @pulitzercenter.bsky.social, the Broad Reach Foundation, @journalismfund.bsky.social and #IJ4EU.
foreverpollution.eu/about/

The Forever Lobbying Project The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.

The #ForeverLobbying Project collaborated with @corporateeurope.bsky.social to get documents from the EU
→ see their report corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-...
and with @journalismarena.eu, our publishing partner
→ see the website with links to all our stories
foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

The Document Collection - The Forever Pollution Project The Forever Lobbying Project gathered a total of 14,331 documents on PFAS constituting the world’s largest collection to date on “forever chemicals”

The #ForeverLobbying Project releases 14,000 unpublished “PFAS papers”, the world’s largest collection on PFAS in the Industry Documents Library at the University of California, San Francisco, and in the Toxic Docs database of Columbia University NY and the CUNY. foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/the...

The Disinformation Campaign Our investigation shows most arguments are straight out of the corporate disinformation playbook.

The #ForeverLobbying Project reveals the lobbying & disinformation campaign by the #PFAS industry with the aim of watering down an EU proposal to ban “forever chemicals”. If they succeed, the burden of environmental pollution will be shifted onto society.
foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/the...

Today, the #ForeverLobbying Project reveals that cleaning up Europe from PFAS could cost €2 trillion over the next 20 years and an annual bill of €100 billion.
If the polluters do not pay, then who will?
foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/the...