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Protecting people and the #environment from harmful #hormone/#endocrine disrupting #chemicals (#EDCs) at UK, #EU & international levels
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This evening CHEM Trust's Stefan Scheuer will be speaking at a @_europecalling webinar ‘PFAS scandal: Dirty Deal with our health and nature?’. Event in 🇬🇧 and 🇩🇪 -register to attend ⬇️. @JuttaPaulusRLP @chemsec @corporateeurope. #ForeverChemicals #BanPFAS.
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Recording: Dear friends and supporters, Did you hear the news? Last week, the research project ‘Forever Lobbying Project’ uncovered an unprecedented lobbying campaign by the chemical industry. For...
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Together with @WCL_News @WWTWorldwide @RSPBaction we sent a letter to Environment Secretary Steve Reed calling on him to accept the recommendation from HSE to ban lead ammunition ➡️ Join us in calling on him to #BanLead for good ⬇️.
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RT @hivecancerderry: 🚨 BREAKING: The Stormont Brake wasn’t applied! Major win for public health in NI as the EU’s revised CLP regulation en….
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A very welcome decision by @hilarybennmp, rejecting the use of the Stormont Brake to stop an improved EU chemical safety law applying to Northern Ireland. #EDCs can now be more easily identified and banned in NI 🙌. Now we need this to apply to the rest of the UK!.
The government has rejected a request from Northern Ireland's unionist parties to use the post-Brexit mechanism known as the Stormont brake.
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🧐Journalists have fact-checked industry lobbying arguments as part of a new #ForeverLobbying Project. ⁉️The journalists, backed by an expert team accused industry lobbyists of using false arguments. Find out more in our latest #ToxicFree4EU briefing:
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Every year lead ammunition finds its way onto our plates and into our pets’ food, risking our health and wellbeing ⚠️. But now the Environment Secretary has the chance to make history. Will you join us in calling on him to #BanLead for good? ⬇️ .
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Breaking news!. 100 billion a year would be the cost to eliminate #PFAS from the environment in Europe. This is the cost of inaction!. Instead of leaving the #foreverchemicals industry tap open, the solution is to #BanPFAS.
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As Europe begins to realize the scale of its poisoning by these toxic and ultra-resistant chemical substances produced by industry, Le Monde and 29 media partners have, for the first time, calculated...
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🫣New #ForeverLobbying Project estimated it will cost €100 billion annually to clean up PFAS in Europe. 💶Even cleaning up #PFAS already restricted or banned is projected to be €95 billion over 20 years. More in our latest #ToxicFree4EU briefing 👉
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RT @WATERSHED_i: Experts allege "lack of urgency" in protecting people's health as UK lags behind EU in regulating PFAS. .
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Experts criticise Defra’s decision not to use OECD definition of PFAS, with one asking if move is ‘politically based’
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⚠️ PFAS have been found in our food, drinking water, and blood. 🚨 A new #ForeverLobbying Project reveals it will cost billions annually to clean up all PFAS!. 🚰 We must turn off the tap on these #ForeverChemicals. 🔎 More in our latest news story 👉
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The #ForeverPollution project is putting #PFAS under the spotlight:.In 2023, it mapped PFAS hot spots across Europe. Today, the follow-up #ForeverLobbying project maps the costs of PFAS pollution and the corporate lobbying campaign against a PFAS ban.
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The Forever Lobbying Project exposes the real cost of PFAS pollution on the environment, science, and politics.
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⚠️#PFAS are ubiquitous to our environment and a new #ForeverLobbying Project has estimated they will cost billions to clean up. 🚫CHEM Trust calls on the UK Government to act now to #BanPFAS. Read more here: Find the project here:
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🚨A new #PFAS #ForeverLobbying project estimated an annual UK clean-up cost of £9.9bn if emissions remain unrestricted and uncontrolled. 🧪Our researcher Dr Sharma commented in a recent @guardian article. Read the full article here: #BanPFAS
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In 2023 the #ForeverPollution Project mapped PFAS hot-spots across Europe. Today the follow-up #ForeverLobbying Project maps the astronomical costs of PFAS pollution, and spotlights the vested interests spin campaign against the proposed PFAS ban.
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🧪 Harmful chemicals of all kinds made the headlines last year. 📲 Take a look back at some of CHEM Trust’s top news stories of 2024!. Check it out here 👉 . #ChemicalPollution #WaterPollution #PFAS
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🚨 Last year reminded us that #ChemicalPollution is still a very present issue. 📰 We have rounded up the top chemical news of 2024 for you. Check it out in our latest news story 👉 . #ForeverChemicals #CleanWater
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⚠️ From suspected EDCs in cosmetics, to harmful chemicals in politicians, 2024 brought chemical news of all kinds. 🖥️ Look back at the top chemical headlines of 2024 in our latest news story. Read it here ➡️ #ToxicChemicals #WaterPollution
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RT @WCL_News: Lead ammunition has been poisoning our wildlife & communities for decades - but now we have a chance to turn things around🦢….
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