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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · Feb 5

🌿✨ Looking for the growing list of EEB’s community on Bluesky? We've got you covered! From staff to members & supporters, our EEB Starter Pack is the perfect way to connect. 💙

Who’s missing?

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 3h

Find out more about ZeroPM here ➡️ zeropm.eu

Welcome to ZeroPM - ZeroPM

ZeroPM is a research project funded by EU’s research and innovation funding programme, Horizon 2020. ZeroPM will enable the EU Green Deal‘s ambition towards Zero Pollution of Persistent, Mobile Substa...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 3h

🌍 This week, the EEB has been in Greece for a key 'ZeroPM' project workshop on water pollution and circularity 🔄

💧Our water expert Sara Johansson highlighted why we must stop pollution at the source to ensure clean, safe & affordable water for all. The key message? Prevention beats cleanup!

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5h

Farming resilience relies on functioning ecosystems and healthy soils🌱🧑‍🌾

Yet MEPs today voted to remove the few remaining safeguards in the #CAP, failing to protect public interest and the future of EU #FoodAndFarming 🚨

Press release 👉 eeb.org/meps-shred-f...

"Stripping away protections against soil erosion and for vulnerable grasslands will not “simplify” farmers lives but expose them further to the escalating climate, nature, and pollution crisis." - Théo Paquet

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 10h

While #fastfashion brands flood the market with cheap, synthetic garments, much of what we discard ends up in Asia and Africa, polluting water, harming local workers health, and overwhelming local reuse markets.

We must act at the source.

www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #circulartextilesday

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

👀 Learn more about SLAPPs - Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation - and their impacts here: meta.eeb.org/2025/09/29/e...

Protecting our right to know: How SLAPPs threaten access to information - New Leaf

Every year on 28 September, the world marks the International Day of Universal Access to Information. Gag lawsuits, or SLAPPs, pose a threat to the right to know. But the Europe's anti-SLAPP law is a ...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

👉 This is a textbook SLAPP: a powerful corporation weaponising the courts to drain citizens’ resources, stifle debate, and discourage scrutiny of its project.

Makes some noise and show solidarity with Roberto Malini and Lisetta Sperindei by sharing their story.

#StopSLAPPs

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

🤐 Fox Petroli is suing its critics to silence dissent

The Italian fuel company has filed a €2M SLAPP lawsuit against two local environmental defenders for using the term “degraded” to describe one of its sites – language reflecting the company’s own report.

📰👉 www.the-case.eu/latest/its-a...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

As a citizen, you can add your voice to the call urging European leaders to commit to a toxic free Europe and make taking action against toxic chemicals in our nature, air, water and bodies an urgent priority

📝 action.wemove.eu/sign/2024-01...

@wemoveeurope.bsky.social #ToxicFreeFuture

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

The EU is at a critical crossroads, revising a future-proof REACH and adopting an ambitious universal PFAS restriction

Today, more than 100 organisations launched the #StopPFAS manifesto, urging EU leaders to support a universal PFAS restriction – not just partial bans

banpfasmanifesto.org/en/

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

💚 Reason for hope - Regulation works:

@ylaleena.bsky.social Executive Director of the @eea.europa.eu, who had previously tested her blood with @eeb.org, showed a decline in PFAS levels, reflecting trends observed among the European population for restricted PFAS.

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

💡 Why it matters?

PFAS contamination spares no one - people or the planet

New “replacement” PFAS keep building up, proving partial
bans aren’t enough

’Cleanup could cost the EU €2 trillion over 20 years - prevention is far cheaper

#PFAS #StopPFAS #EU #PublicHealth

foreverpollution.eu/lobbying/

The Forever Lobbying Project

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

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

🔎 Findings briefly:

- Between three and eight PFAS chemicals were detected in the blood of all EU officials tested

- Half of EU leaders tested exceed levels linked to health risks

- Six PFAS (PFOA, PFOS, PFHxS, PFNA, PFDA & PFUnDA) are already regulated in Europe - yet still found in their blood

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 1d

The @eeb.org, together with DK and @chemsec.bsky.social has tested the blood for PFAS of 24 EU leaders from 19 countries

🩸More than half of the politicians tested have concerning levels of #PFAS their blood

Read our press release to learn more about the findings eeb.org/eu-leaders-c...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 2d

Learn more about F-gases and their safe, natural alternatives 👇

F-GASES, AN UNPRECEDENTED CASE OF CHEMICAL POLLUTION - New Leaf

The transition to refrigerants and blowing agents using F-gases with lower global warming potential may have reduced climate impacts but the inconvenient truth is that these F-gases are themselves or ...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 2d

⚠️ Worried about data centres’ energy & water use? Don’t forget the chemicals!

Data centres use F-gases is their cooling systems - potent greenhouse gases that also leak #ForeverChemicals into air, water & soil.

Europe must build its AI boom on renewable energy + safe, natural refrigerants 🌿

Advocates raise alarm over Pfas pollution from datacenters amid AI boom

Tech companies’ use of Pfas gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought

www.theguardian.com

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 2d

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De Nieuwe Melkboer – Lokale Plantaardige Yoghurt uit Twente

Ontdek plantaardige yoghurt van Nederlandse bodem. Gemaakt met lokaal geteelde soja, vol vezels en smaak. Eerlijk, duurzaam en écht Twents.

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 2d

🌱 Farmers, environmental groups, and food actors met recently in Enschede to explore how to shift #foodsystems - together 💪

One thing’s clear: real change starts with open, grounded collaboration 🤝

Thanks to our inspiring hosts Bart and Tom from Die Nieuwe Melkboer - read about them below! ⬇️

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

Honouring the life and legacy of Dr Jane Goodall (1934–2025). 🕊️

Her groundbreaking work with chimpanzees changed science forever, and her passion for community-led conservation continues to inspire.

Her spirit lives on in the places she loved and the people she empowered.

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

We honour Jane Goodall’s legacy 🌿 & highlight citizen action from climate marches to local campaigns, proving another future is possible.
Our newsletter drops every Friday morning. Don’t miss it!

Subscribe here: lnkd.in/ePbXinCn
Read the full newsletter here: meta.eeb.org/2025/10/03/1...

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

We unpack the EU Environment Agency’s 2025 report: collapsing ecosystems, polluted waters & soaring costs – but also progress on renewables, cleaner air & circular design. We spotlight Draghi’s “competitiveness” report & remind: protecting nature is survival, not a burden.

European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 5d

💄 BABE, IT'S NOT HOLY SCRIPTURE

This week’s New Leaf sails with the Global Sumud Flotilla, challenging Israel’s genocide & illegal blockade of Gaza, and rolls into Brussels with a big red #HandsOffNature bus to confront the EU’s deregulation spree.

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 6d

📉 #LandscapeFeatures are declining and so are the many benefits they provide:

Think ecosystem support, water filtration, and soil erosion protection… 😰

Join us on the 14 October to hear how @laferia-project.eu is working to reverse this trend 👇 laferia-project.eu/news/join-us...

Join us for LAFERIA’s first webinar!

Come join us in restoring landscape features in intensive agricultural lands: Learn more about the LAFERIA project and how you can engage. LAFERIA is holding its first webinar on 14 October 2025, f...

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EEB Economy & Climate @eeb-economyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Europe’s #cars can’t be green if the steel they’re made from isn’t

Almost a fifth of all #steel in the EU is used to make cars. Most of this is produced using polluting coal-power

Cleaning up the steel behind Europe’s cars means clearing the air we breathe – while giving existing steel a new life

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EEB Economy & Climate @eeb-economyclimate.bsky.social · 6d

Research shows the potential of using renewable-based, recycled #steel to make new #cars.

It’s time for:
🚗Automakers to demand #FossilFreeSteel. 
🏛️Law makers to adopt adequate targets to boost the uptake of recycled steel in #automotive production

vimeo.com/1114819665?s... #GreenSteel

Steel Car-to-Car project - Economic and environmental benefits

This is "Steel Car-to-Car project - Economic and environmental benefits" by Institut mobilités en transition on Vimeo, the home for high quality…

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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 7d

@birdlifeeurope.bsky.social @clienteartheur.bsky.social @wwf.eu

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