As politicians get ready to cosy up with Big Toxics at a private event in a chemicals factory to discuss a new 'European Industrial Deal', Corporate Europe Observatory looks at how the Green Deal's proposals to reduce and replace toxic substances that harm health and ecosystems, have been delayed and sidelined.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12474306

As politicians get ready to cosy up with Big Toxics at a private event in a chemicals factory to discuss a new ‘European Industrial Deal’, Corporate Europe Observatory looks at how the Green Deal’s proposals to reduce and replace toxic substances that harm health and ecosystems, have been delayed and sidelined. This is the result of chemicals lobbying including an industry-commissioned study that has scaremongered over the impacts of new regulations.