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Emily B

@emilycgb.bsky.social
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🇦🇹🇺🇸 in Brussels / EU 🇪🇺| chemicals•plastics•policy•circular economy | she/her | 🚲| popgirl | solo mom | booksky 💙📚

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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
😍😍😍
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
holding out for international boyfriend
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Europeans need to learn from Philadelphia how to handle these things
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CHEM Trust @chemtrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A type of PFAS known as TFA has been detected in 100% of urine samples of 150 participants in Germany. Participants were between the ages of 20 and 69. More in our news story 👉 buff.ly/d1Aewdg
buff.ly
New German study finds ‘forever chemical’ TFA in all people tested
A new study has analysed urine samples in Germany for trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) for the first time, this PFAS chemical was detected in all samples.
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
EU Member States agree to simplified EU law on environmental assessments - still need to negotiate with the European Parliament www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/pre...
consilium.europa.eu
Simplification: Council agrees negotiating stance to fast track environmental assessments
Council agrees negotiating position on proposal to accelerate environmental assessments.
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Dumbest timeline possible
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ANEC @anecstandards.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📢 Join our #WorldStandardsDay webinar on how #standards can support affordable & #CleanEnergy while protecting consumers & the environment. 🌱⚡ With @anecstandards.bsky.social, @cen-cenelec.bsky.social & @ecos.ngo 🗓️ 12 Oct | 14:00–15:00 🔗 tinyurl.com/2btbx5ua
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The SocDem, Left and Green response to EPP and ECR stiff cardboard letters should be: "OK, so what would you like to cut, exactly, and how will you explain the outcomes of those cuts to your voters who benefit from it?" The Centre-Left and Socialists should call these bluffs more often.
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
What will the result of this actually be, more giant gas-powered trucks or??
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Emily Sanders @emdashsanders.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
welp... earlier this year I wrote for @desmog.com about what this could mean for US communities in the path of the LNG export buildout
reuters.com
EU to delay methane emissions rules after pushback from governments
The European Commission plans to postpone ​the European Union's landmark law ‌to reduce methane emissions, a spokesperson said on Monday, ​following calls from governments ​including France and the ⁠U...
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Mark Z. Barabak @markzbarabak.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
California farmworkers face health hazards amid inconsistent pesticide enforcement Robert J Lopez www.latimes.com/california/s...
latimes.com
California farmworkers face health hazards amid inconsistent pesticide enforcement
An analysis of 40,000 state records shows that health and safety violations are penalized inconsistently, and regulatory action rarely results in fines.
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Stéphane Mandard @stephanemandard.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Pesticides : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un « dangereux recul » en Europe. ➡️ L’omnibus X de la Commission prévoit notamment d’accorder des autorisations illimitées aux pesticides. Le texte suscite une mobilisation sans précédent des médecins et chercheurs. (avec @sfoucart.bsky.social) ⤵️
lemonde.fr
Pesticides : la communauté scientifique alerte sur un « dangereux recul » en Europe
Engagée dans une course à la simplification de ses réglementations pour améliorer la compétitivité de l’économie, la Commission européenne propose de nombreux assouplissements dans le paquet législati...
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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’ - António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation #climatecrisis Story by @olliemilman.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Outgoing UN chief says polluters have treated atmosphere like an ‘open sewer’
António Guterres laments world leaders’ inaction and says oil and gas firms ‘must pay’ for climate devastation
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Bernd Hüttemann 🇪🇺 @huettemann.eu · 21/09/2026
💡 🇦🇹 🇨🇿 🇩🇰 🇩🇪 🇪🇪 🇭🇺 🇮🇹 🇱🇻 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 🇵🇹 🇸🇮 🇸🇰 are calling for a 🇪🇺 simplification push: fewer overlapping rules and reporting obligations, stronger impact assessments, an "evaluate first" approach and systematic reviews of the acquis while maintaining high social, environmental and consumer-protection standards #EUsky
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Zselyke Csaky @zecsaky.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here is my latest piece about the rule of law and democracy in the next MFF. Will it have actual teeth? Are the proposed changes enough to defend democracy? Read more below 👇
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The best day of the year in Brussels. Can’t wait for the first 2nd day in May 😊 #journeesansvoiture www.rtbf.be/article/jour...
rtbf.be
Journée sans voiture : un dimanche sous le signe du silence (relatif), 'Cela rappelle la période du Covid' - RTBF Actus
Malgré la pluie, de nombreux Bruxellois ont pris possession des rues de la capitale ce dimanche matin à l’occasion de la...
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
As always, car free day=the best day in Brussels
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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 20/09/2026
Aalst, Antwerp, Bruges, Ypres, Kortrijk, Leuven, Lier, Ostend, Roeselare, Tienen and Vilvoorde are joining Brussels-led initiative.
brusselstimes.com
Not just Brussels: Car-free Sunday in record number of cities across Belgium
Not just Brussels: Car-free Sunday in record number of cities across Belgium
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
After a rainy morning the entire city has now emptied into the streets for car-free day 😊
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Dimitri Strobbe 🚧 @strobbe.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Gentil rappel à tous les conducteurs qui roulent à Bruxelles, aujourd’hui (que avec permission) - MAX 30km/h!
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Minion Be Doo Be Doo Alarm
ALT: Minion Be Doo Be Doo Alarm
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The Brussels Times @brusselstimes.com · 20/09/2026
A majority of Brussels residents would like to see more car-free days introduced in the capital, with one in four supporting at least 12 such days a year.
brusselstimes.com
Seven in ten Brussels residents want more car-free days
Seven in ten Brussels residents want more car-free days
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sephirAmy @sephiramy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
how about some good news: new cat just dropped!!!!
a photo of a small, spotted wild cat, with orange fur and brown circular markings, staring up with big golden eyes.Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years

A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.

This 10-year-old male tiger cat is the first of his species (named Leopardus tilcayo) known to science. He is approximately 18 inches from head to end of body and weighs only 3 pounds, making him smaller than the average domestic cat. This video was captured at the Senda Verde Animal Refuge in Bolivia’s Yungas region, where he currently resides.
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Simon Lester @simonlester.com · 17/09/2026
"He wants Canada to join the Erasmus Plus student exchange scheme, deepen its involvement in the next stage of Horizon Europe, a research programme, and negotiate a deal to allow young people to work in each other’s countries."
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sometimes fun in politics is good
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James Kanter @jameskanter.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Maple mania at the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of Mark Carney speech. @terryreintke.bsky.social #HeatedRivalry
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pippaneill.bsky.social @pippaneill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The ongoing campaign to build thousands of massive datacenters will create a “tsunami” of discarded electronics, putting the world on a course to triple its annual generation of toxic e-waste in the next 25 years, a new report projects. By Erin McCormick www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Datacenter rush will create ‘tsunami’ of discarded electronics, report says
Global push will triple toxic e-waste annually in 25 years, filling enough shipping containers to circle globe six times
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Bottle caps just caught a stray from the ECR group response 😂
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
Wild update to my 'single use plastics' AI analogy: Australian campaigners are now using AI-generated images to campaign against single-use plastics (90% sure the text is AI slop as well)
Frackman Project
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THIS IS A YOU PROBLEM
Forgot your keep cup? Your fault. Bought a bottle of water? Weak. Didn’t rinse the yoghurt tub before recycling? Congratulations, you’ve personally murdered a turtle and its entire extended family.
For decades that’s been the deal. Plastic is your problem, your choices, your guilt. And look some of that’s fair. If there’s a better option, take it. Nobody needs a plastic fork engineered to outlive the Pyramids so you can eat a salad that lasts eight minutes.
But this is the bit I reckon they’d rather you didn’t think about too fucking much.
While we were being lectured about our recycling technique, global plastic production went from about 2 million tonnes a year in 1950 to over 500 million today. Doubled in the last 20 years. And the plan is more.
Because plastic isn’t just plastic. It’s oil and gas wearing a different hat. As we peel the oil industry’s fingers off transport and energy, they need somewhere new to flog the stuff and petrochemicals are it. This is their new business model. You’re not just the customer, you’re now also the landfill.
I tried to finish this up with a comedic punchline, but this isn’t really that funny. 
It’s inside us. Microplastics have turned up in human brain tissue, in testes, in breast milk. At what point did we all agree that was a fair trade for a convenient lid?
So no, you can’t manufacture hundreds of millions of tonnes of the stuff, wrap our food in it, and then stand beside the recycling bin shaking your head at me.
Responsibility runs both ways. Yes, we need to choose better when you can, but the companies making 500 million tonnes a year don’t get to call this a you problem.
I’m pretty comfortable with plastic being in my car, I’d just prefer it wasn’t in me. See less
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Speed up permitting = environmental and social harm, let’s not ignore that #soteu2026
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Cursed post
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Nooooooooooo
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Center for International Environmental Law @ciel.org · 15/09/2026
🎉Huge congratulations to CIEL’s @dlevialvares.bsky.social for winning the 2026 Climate Breakthrough Award! With Climate Breakthrough’s support, she’s launching an ambitious initiative to map pathways out of the petrochemical-dependent world. 🧵👇1/2
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BEUC - The Consumer Voice @beuc.eu · 15/09/2026
A bargain should not come with a blind spot. When millions of parcels arrive every day through e-commerce, the old system no longer gives customs authorities the tools they need to keep unsafe products out and fair competition in. The effects of the new €3 duty on parcels are starting to show ⤵️
euronews.com
EU halves cheap parcel influx in bid to rein in Chinese e-commerce
The EU has cut the number of low-value parcels entering the region by half, following the introduction of a €3 flat fee. The measure is part of a broader effort to curb the growing dominance of…
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Put another way, it’s not “Now do cars.” It’s a question of whether or not drivers are asked to take collective responsibility for the behavior of all other drivers in the way people ask of “cyclists.”
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David Savage @dtsavage.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
If you are an environmental ngo working on a non climate issue (eg biodiversity), you're pretty justified in thinking the permitting reform folks are throwing you under the bus. At the very least that permitting reform camp has yet to articulate its affirmative vision of eg the ESA or MBTA
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Why do I even bother reading articles on ********, every time I just get angry about the lack of journalistic investigation. How can an article bc published with the line “Donald Trump believes XYZ” and there be NO actual factchecking of the statement WHATSOEVER
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.se · 14/09/2026
So who "won" the Swedish election? Narratives after parliamentary elections are hard. The center right gained support but will lose power, and the Social Democrats lost support but will gain power. The radical right Sweden Democrats are the clear loser, losing support and power.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 14/09/2026
⚡️Canada seeking to join EU support loan to Ukraine, FT reports. Canada and the EU hope to finalize the amount Ottawa will contribute to the loan before the upcoming EU-Canada Summit in Montreal in late October, according to FT.
kyivindependent.com
Canada seeking to join EU support loan to Ukraine, FT reports
Canada and the EU hope to finalize the amount Ottawa will contribute to the loan before the upcoming EU-Canada Summit in Montreal in late October, according to FT.
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Jorge Liboreiro @jorgeliboreiro.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Incredibly tight results between the red and blue blocs in the Swedish election. As things stand, Magdalena Andersson is in pole position to become prime minister. A rare win for European socialists these days.
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Love to exercise in 95% humidity, instant sweat
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩🫩
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s officially soup season because I’m making a soup 😁😁😁
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Steve Flack @vitaminsteve.com · 11/09/2026
that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.
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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
New study finds the social cost of driving a car 1 km—including pollution, crashes, infrastructure, and noise—is more than *triple* the private cost paid by the car owner. doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Will try to read this article fully later but in terms of loopholes, we at @ecos.ngo tried to close loopholes in the proposal for unsold goods - and will be working further on market surveillance/enforcement aspects in upcoming EU product regulation
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe even worse than the water data centers are taking from humans is the toxic crap they’re spewing back out www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
Data centers now facing backlash over contaminated wastewater
Locals are raising alarms over rare bacteria, forever chemicals, and other environmental concerns.
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Yakov Feygin @buddyyakov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I want to thank Based Green Donald for imposing the world's stupidest carbon tax.
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The EU has unveiled its new public #procurement rules. Moving beyond lowest price is welcome. But optional social criteria, weak action on tax avoidance and new uncertainty on concessions are serious gaps. Public money should raise standards - not reward loopholes. 🔗 www.epsu.org/article/euro...
An image of EU flags outside the Berlaymont with the text "The Commission overhauls public procurement rules: an opportunity for improvement"
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Emily B @emilycgb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
EU and Canada are getting PACS’ed
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 08/09/2026
I know this sounds crazy but I think we have too many products
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