We're at Westminster today co-hosting an event with CHEM Trust sponsored by Kerry McCarthy to talk to MPs about forever chemicals and why we need urgent action on them to protect our planet, wildlife, and us. #StopOceanPoison

Today we’re co-hosting a UK parliamentary event with Marine Conservation Society to #StopOceanPoison 🌊 Calling on GOV.UK to protect the environment with a strong chemicals strategy, incl. a ban on all non-essential uses of PFAS. Thank you to Kerry McCarthy for hosting

Marine Conservation Society GOV.UK Kerry McCarthy @RuthNewportWest Ian Cousins Speeches end with @CescaBevan, highlighting impacts on marine life: from hormonal disorders to reduced birth weights. This “is probably the tip of the iceberg.. we are likely to see many other impacts as the years tick on and the burden of PFAS grows” mcsuk.org/what-you-can-d…

Very honoured to have coauthored this white paper with amazing colleagues to develop a future UN science-policy panel for the International Panel on Chemical Pollution (IPCP). Let’s leave our children, and their children, with a cleaner less polluted planet 🌎

📢Job alert Come work with us at CHEM Trust We are recruiting 3 new roles: ✅Senior EU campaigner ✅Scientific Research Assistant (to work with me 🙂) ✅Philanthropy Officer 👉More info here: chemtrust.org/new-jobs-2023/

Also a helpful example of why strong Chemical regulations in UK are vital for trade. Ours must at least match EU REACH. #Newsnight #stopoceanpoison Marine Conservation Society APPG for the Ocean Conservative Friends Of The Ocean Francesca Ginley Laura Foster Kitty Thompson🐿

Our Chemicals specialist Francesca Ginley is hard at work analysing the proposal and we'll keep you updated with more thoughts soon. Find out more about 'forever chemicals' on our website and how you can take action to #StopOceanPoison👇 mcsuk.org/what-you-can-d…

Thank you to Minister Rebecca Pow for your constructive engagement with NGOs last month to discuss #UKChemicals Strategy and regulation. We are looking forward to further positive discussions over the coming year.

We found high levels of ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS, described as the one of biggest problem facing mankind in the 21st century, polluting a river from the site of a chemical company in Lancashire Day 2 of watershed_investigations investigation theguardian.com/environment/20… #ForeverPollution

Are your business's products PFAS-Free? We are looking for businesses committed to PFAS-free products to add to our PFAS-free list👉 pfasfree.org.uk/current-initia… If your products are PFAS-Free, get in touch: [email protected] #PFAS #ForeverChemicals #Businesses

Loved watching BBC #WildIsles last night. But did you know that the Northern Gannets from Bass rock shown in the episode are impacted by #PFAS? This study shows the presence of these forever chemicals in northern gannet eggs: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Storm overflow data for England & Wales released today EA Director said: "The decrease in spills in 2022 is largely down to dry weather, not water company action" Over 300,000 spills in England in 2022 We want to #wildSwimming #surf & enjoy our #coast gov.uk/government/new…

🇬🇧 The UK’s plans for tackling PFAS pollution – are they good enough? 👉my latest blog for CHEM Trust chemtrust.org/uk-pfas-rmoa/ #BanPFAS

‘Forever chemicals’ linked to infertility in women, study shows theguardian.com/environment/20…

Horizontal and vertical distribution of #PFAS in the water column of the Atlantic Ocean. Seawater depth profiles to 5 km depth at 28 sampling stations. Environmental Science & Technology Journals pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

If you happen to be at the Labour Party conference in Liverpool and want to hear me banging on about chemical cocktail pollution (niche tastes) alongside @RuthNewportWest and Francesca Ginley then please come along to the fringe event in the Lab Env Hub Marquee, Sun @ 16.15 Labour's Environment Campaign - SERA

Why would anyone need to know about the highly toxic forever chemicals in their drinking water?

Studies found, "massive amounts of PFAS within brain tumours" Dr Bennett explains. We're only now beginning to understand the harm done by toxic forever chemicals polluting our water & our bodies. More in our new podcast 👇 #DarkWaters podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/can…

IEEP UK to speak at Labour Party conference fringe on EU/UK relations and environmental policy, with spotlight on chemicals policy w/ @chemtrust Emilien Gasc EU Delegation UK Will Hutton Francesca Ginley Marine Conservation Society Labour's Environment Campaign - SERA ieep.uk/news/ieep-uk-t…

Langstone Harbour Marine 'Protected' Area: with nurseries for young fish & Ramsar status for sea birds, these waters should be a crystal clear wildlife haven. Instead they're churning with sewage. In that sewage, cancer causing PFOA, & PFOS, both globally banned, study finds🧵