❌ Or see how countries behind the original proposal (🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰) have already proposed weaker approaches on #PFAS mabufacturing for exports + many new derogations from ban.
❌ Or the 🇪🇺 chemicals agency leaving 8 sectors out of its evaluation.
https://www.chemsec.org/pfas-restriction-proposal-5-red-flags-from-the-recent-update/
It has been exactly 1 year since launch of #ForeverLobbying Project & our own Chemical Reaction report.
Together we exposed access, strategies, & misleading messaging of prominent parts of #PFAS industry against proposed ban.
➡️ https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-reaction
➡️ https://www.foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/
The work was featured in media outlets across Europe; it has won at least one award & been nominated for others.
The impacts have been far and wide, including prompting a new programme to empower rigorous journalism!
❌ 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
❌ And today, 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
https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/plasticseurope-services-sprl?rid=454264611835-56
❌ Or see how countries behind the original proposal (🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰) have already proposed weaker approaches on #PFAS mabufacturing for exports + many new derogations from ban.
❌ Or the 🇪🇺 chemicals agency leaving 8 sectors out of its evaluation.
https://www.chemsec.org/pfas-restriction-proposal-5-red-flags-from-the-recent-update/
❌ 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
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.
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/consumer-pfas-vs-universal-ban
❌ Or see how countries behind the original proposal (🇳🇴 🇸🇪 🇳🇱 🇩🇪 🇩🇰) have already proposed weaker approaches on #PFAS mabufacturing for exports + many new derogations from ban.
❌ Or the 🇪🇺 chemicals agency leaving 8 sectors out of its evaluation.
https://www.chemsec.org/pfas-restriction-proposal-5-red-flags-from-the-recent-update/
It has been exactly 1 year since launch of #ForeverLobbying Project & our own Chemical Reaction report.
Together we exposed access, strategies, & misleading messaging of prominent parts of #PFAS industry against proposed ban.
➡️ https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-reaction
➡️ https://www.foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/
The work was featured in media outlets across Europe; it has won at least one award & been nominated for others.
The impacts have been far and wide, including prompting a new programme to empower rigorous journalism!
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.
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05/consumer-pfas-vs-universal-ban
It has been exactly 1 year since launch of #ForeverLobbying Project & our own Chemical Reaction report.
Together we exposed access, strategies, & misleading messaging of prominent parts of #PFAS industry against proposed ban.
➡️ https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/chemical-reaction
➡️ https://www.foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/
The work was featured in media outlets across Europe; it has won at least one award & been nominated for others.
The impacts have been far and wide, including prompting a new programme to empower rigorous journalism!
New EU-wide protections against PFAS in drinking water come into effect
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-limit-pfas-drinking-water-2026-01-12_en
New EU-wide protections against PFAS in drinking water come into effect
https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/new-eu-rules-limit-pfas-drinking-water-2026-01-12_en
Huge, if true.
"The council says SoyFoam is just as effective as traditional foams without the health and environmental dangers caused by forever chemicals known as PFAS, which the older generation products contained."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/01/soybeans-soyfoam-fighting-fires
Huge, if true.
"The council says SoyFoam is just as effective as traditional foams without the health and environmental dangers caused by forever chemicals known as PFAS, which the older generation products contained."
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/12/01/soybeans-soyfoam-fighting-fires
" #EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/forever-chemicals-pesticides/
A lobbyist for pesticide companies "praised the EPA’s commitment to 'gold standard science.'"
" #EPA just approved new ‘forever chemical’ pesticides for use on food."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/11/22/forever-chemicals-pesticides/
A lobbyist for pesticide companies "praised the EPA’s commitment to 'gold standard science.'"
uhhhh "California farms applied an average of 2.5m lb of Pfas “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/california-pfas-forever-chemicals
HT @ai6yr
#California farms applied millions of pounds of #PFAS to key crops, study finds
‘ #ForeverChemicals’ sprayed on #almonds, #grapes, #tomatoes and other crops as activists warn of ‘obvious problem’
by Tom Perkins
Tue 18 Nov 2025 07.00 EST
Excerpt: "California farms applied an average of 2.5m lbs of PFAS “forever chemicals” per year on cropland from 2018 to 2023, or a total of about 15m lbs, a new review of state records shows.
The chemicals are added to pesticides that are sprayed on crops such as almonds, pistachios, #wine grapes, #alfalfa and tomatoes, the review of California Department of Pesticide Regulation data found. The Environmental Working Group nonprofit put together the report.
The risk for uptake of PFAS is likely higher in water-rich fruits and vegetables, because water attracts the chemicals, and research has shown PFAS may concentrate at dangerous levels in some produce. The chemicals also pollute water supplies and present a higher risk to the often low income and Latino #farmworkers."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/18/california-pfas-forever-chemicals
#ForeverChemicals #DowChemicalKnew
#3MKnew #BigAg #RoundupReady #Glyphosate #Bees #Extinction #Hubris #WaterIsLife #PFASContamination #EnvironmentalDamage #EPACuts #Pollution #PFOS #PFASPollution #PFASContamnation #ManMadeDisasters #3M #3MLied #GenXChemicals
#PFNA #PFHxS
The non-stick containers in most air fryers are coated with Teflon, made with "forever chemicals" (PFAS).
I'm sorry.
I upgraded my kitchen to a stainless steel (Breville) toaster oven with an air fryer function, to avoid air fryer appliances / PFAS, and also the oven on my gas stove (carcinogenic benzene).
PFAS are worth avoiding wherever you can to the extent it's possible.
Pour une fois, la France pourrait aller au-devant de la réglementation européenne 🧐
22 substances dans la plupart des produits alimentaires et jusqu’à 25 dans les eaux de surface: l' #Anses prône une surveillance systématique de plusieurs #PFAS
A lire dans @mediapart 👇
Iels ont bien bossé les lanceureuses d'alerte sur les Pfas
Pour certain.es, ça leur a valu des comparutions en justice (avec tout ce que ça englobe, des gardes à vue, des privations de leurs biens, pour une par exemple, cheminote, son véhicule qui lui permettait d'aller bosser et de déposer son enfant à l'école, et d'autres choses encore)
Bravo vous ! ❤️🖤
Iels ont bien bossé les lanceureuses d'alerte sur les Pfas
Pour certain.es, ça leur a valu des comparutions en justice (avec tout ce que ça englobe, des gardes à vue, des privations de leurs biens, pour une par exemple, cheminote, son véhicule qui lui permettait d'aller bosser et de déposer son enfant à l'école, et d'autres choses encore)
Bravo vous ! ❤️🖤
Pour une fois, la France pourrait aller au-devant de la réglementation européenne 🧐
22 substances dans la plupart des produits alimentaires et jusqu’à 25 dans les eaux de surface: l' #Anses prône une surveillance systématique de plusieurs #PFAS
A lire dans @mediapart 👇
