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Naomi Oreskes @naomioreskes.bsky.social · Jul 17

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...

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…

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Peter Yeung @peter-yeung.bsky.social · Apr 11

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

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Rachel Salvidge @rachelsalvidge.bsky.social · Apr 10

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

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...

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Le Monde Afrique @afrique.lemonde.fr · Feb 22

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.

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Feb 21

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 🤩

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Feb 21

@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 !

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Marc Epstein @marcepstein.bsky.social · Feb 19

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

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Blast le souffle de l’info @blast-info.fr · Feb 4

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

#Ecologie#Pollution

« 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”

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 30

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« 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...

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Leana Hosea @leanahosea.bsky.social · Jan 17

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...

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Raphaëlle Aubert @raphaelleaubert.bsky.social · Jan 14

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 ⬇️
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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...

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The Black Sea @theblacksea.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

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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.

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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!

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EurEau @eureau.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

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EurEau @eureau.bsky.social · Jan 14

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...

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Mariah Blake @mariahblake.bsky.social · Jan 14

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...

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

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

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Sharon Lerner @fastlerner.bsky.social · Jan 14

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

The Forever Lobbying Project

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

foreverpollution.eu

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Romane Bonnemé @romanebonneme.bsky.social · Jan 14

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" ⬇️
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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · Jan 14

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:

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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.
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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.

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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 Forever Lobbying Project

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

foreverpollution.eu

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Stéphane Horel @stephanehorel.bsky.social · Jan 14

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 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”

foreverpollution.eu

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