Vicky Cann

@vickycann.bsky.social

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Campaigner for @corporateeurope.org Working on #PFAS #BigToxics #Chemicals #Deregulation #LobbyFacts #PrivilegedAccess She/her

Cartoon depicting two red buttons and a finger about to press one of them. The title reads: Corporations right now... and the left button says: business as usual carry on contaminating. The right button says: make products that put people and the planet first! The finger is about to press the left button. Cartoon by @CartoonRalph
Cartoon depicting two red buttons and a finger about to press one of them. The title reads: Corporations right now... and the left button says: business as usual carry on contaminating. The right button says: make products that put people and the planet first! The finger is about to press the left button. Cartoon by @CartoonRalph
Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky, and at the top right corner the words: Report - Chemical reaction - Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction Three circles. A green one to the left says: It’s time to reclaim regulation and to prioritise sustainability and justice over corporate profits A blue circle at the centre says: It’s time to ban ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS and use safer alternatives instead. An orange circle at the right says: It’s time to protect PFAS decision-making; the Commission needs to stop meeting with the PFAS lobby industry.
Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky, and at the top right corner the words: Report - Chemical reaction - Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction Below written in white against a black background we read: The PFAS pollution crisis The image has 5 blue circles, each with the following text: 1. PFAS pollution found in animals, air, waters, soil, plants 2. Annual European health-related costs for exposure to PFAS estimate €52-84 billion 3. 23,000+ contaminated sites across Europe 4. Human health impacts likely to include liver damage, decreased fertility, and cancer 5. Annual European environmental PFAS clean-up costs estimate €100+ billion Sources: https://foreverpollution.eu/lobbying https://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1295959/FULLTEXT01.pdf
Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky, and at the top right corner the words: Report - Chemical reaction - Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction. Below written in white against a black background we read: Next steps for the European Commission on PFAS Several green circles say: Immediate halt to all private Commission lobby meetings on the uPFAS restriction with those industry voices demanding exemptions and derogations; No pre-empting the work of ECHA on uPFAS; Public recognition that it is vital to protect the public interest from corporate capture in uPFAS restriction; Better rule book; Much improved implementation of EU access to documents rules; Review of use of industry-sourced studies and data in chemicals policy-making, and boosting the sourcing of independent science; Scale up Commission work on the substitution of harmful substances with safer alternatives.
Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky, and at the top right corner the words: Report - Chemical reaction - Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction. Photo with a green filter of the European Commission, Berlaymont building, Brussels. Photo credit: @EmDee Wikipedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Logo of Corporate Europe Observatory at the top left corner, at the bottom left corner there is the URL www.corporateeurope.org, at the bottom right one the logos of social media networks instagram, Facebook, mastodon and bluesky, and at the top right corner the words: Report - Chemical reaction - Inside the corporate fight against the EU’s PFAS restriction. Below written in white against a black background we read: Biggest sectors lobbying on PFAS. #1 Chemicals - with the image of an Erlenmeyer flask #2 Batteries - with the image of a lithium-ion battery, like those in electric vehicles #3 Medical tech - with the image of an inhaler #4 Wider manufacturing, including semiconductors - with the image of a chip
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.