🌞 Want proof that making polluters pay works? Malta has just secured EU funding to renovate homes, expand clean transport and help vulnerable households break free from fossil fuels. That's exactly what the EU ETS2 is designed to do. ✍️ Sign our petition to defend it: life-effect.org/petition/

What makes a hotel or a campsite green? During the European Youth Week, young people made a guess at the criteria tourist accommodations must meet to earn the #EUEcolabel - Europe's official certification for green stays (and much more) What do you think it takes? Drop your guess in the comments!

Nuclear power VS a 40°C summer is not going great 🌡️ When rivers get too warm or too low, nuclear reactors have to slow down or shut down ⚠️ Romania literally used explosives to redirect the Danube and help cool its reactor ⚠️ Hungary is on the verge of shutting down its only nuclear reactor 🧵

Romanian navy blows up rock in Danube to redirect water to nuclear plant

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🚨Chromium VI is a known carcinogen. Under #REACH, its use is prohibited unless companies obtain authorisation under strict conditions. A proposed restriction could weaken this protection. The @ec.europa.eu should aim to strengthen protection, not weakening it. echa.europa.eu/restrictions...

Every summer, Europe becomes a heat trap 🌡 It doesn't have to be this way. This thread explores heat-ready solutions for our homes, schools and cities. Now let's make polluters pay to fund them. Sign our petition: life-effect.org/petition/

⛓️ Fossil fuels are not a choice. They are a trap. Every delay to climate action keeps people trapped in expensive imports and volatile prices. The ETS2 will help people break free from this toxic cycle. It must be defended, not delayed or weakened. ✍️ Sign our petition: life-effect.org/petition/

🎥 "Europe's green rulebook needs defenders." Today in Dublin, Patrick ten Brink delivers a clear message to Europe's environment ministers: defend the Green Deal, stand up for science and evidence, and don't let short-term politics undermine Europe's future.

🪚 Europe's competitive edge won't come from deregulation. It will come from boosting clean industry, scaling up cheap renewable electricity, strengthening circularity, restoring ecosystems and breaking free from fossil fuels. Today, we are in Dublin to deliver a clear message to EU ministers 👇👂

Keeping businesses competitive while balancing climate targets

Faustine Bas- Defossez- policy director, European Environmental Bureau

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⏩ The fossil-free home revolution is evolving fast. Are you keeping up? Join our new Policy Meets Innovation webinar academy to discover the market-ready solutions accelerating building electrification 📅 1st Webinar: 21 Oct, 11:00 CET 🔗 Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/27f17f...

⚡ Europe is finally getting serious about electrification The EU Electrification Action Plan is a major step towards replacing fossil fuels in homes, transport & industry Key wins: ✅ 2040 electrification target ✅ fairer energy taxation ✅ Heating & Cooling Strategy ✅ integrated solutions for homes

✅ Good news for Europe's waters! The Commission's report on the Nitrates Directive gives it a clean bill of health! The law works, and the benefits outweigh costs 3-7 times over 💪 The challenge now isn't new rules, it's implementation. 💧🌍 #WaterResilience #NitratesDirective #PolluterPays

🚨 Another giveaway to industrial factory farms EU governments today approved new pollution rules for the largest pig & poultry farms - but with exemptions and delays that preserve a toxic status quo. | Citizens pay the price through polluted water, dirty air and worsening climate impacts🌍🐷🐔 More👇

The Critical Chemicals Alliance should support a genuinely sustainable transition for Europe's chemicals sector - not reinforce the status quo. @eeb.org joined 30 other civil society organisations calling for fundamental reform of the Alliance. Read more 👇 eeb.org/en/library/l...

Can cement go climate-neutral? 🧱 Yes. A new generation of innovators across Europe is already producing near-zero-carbon cement and concrete. The technology exists. Now policy and markets need to scale it. Join us and meet the frontrunners on Monday: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c10446...

Industry lobbyists aren't speaking for Europeans 🔇 New EU polling shows 72% say the biggest polluters should pay more! What citizens want: 🫵 A fair carbon price, not more freebies for climate-wrecking industries 💸 Carbon revenues invested in the clean transition, not more unconditional handouts

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A new YouGov poll across six European countries finds that 72% of citizens believe the biggest polluters and climate laggards should pay more, challenging industry calls to weaken the EU Emissions Tra...

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🌿 Cement is no longer a "hard-to-abate" industry. European pioneers are already delivering low-carbon cement and concrete through innovative binders, circular solutions and cleaner production. Now it's time for policy to catch up. 🔗 Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/c10446...

New study published in the Environmental Science: Processes & Impacts journal by the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org reveals that it is physically impossible to remediate #PFAS pollution at scale www.rsc.org/news/pfas-re... #ToxicFreeFuture #BanPFAS #STOPPFAS

🔥 Why are some steelmakers trying to weaken the EU ETS? Let's start with the "some". Not all steelmakers want a weaker carbon price. Just those investing billions to keep coal-fired steel alive. 🧵

🚨 Who’s in the driving seat of the Critical Chemicals Alliance? New report by @corporateeurope.org & @eeb.org reveals how the @ec.europa.eu Critical Chemicals Alliance (CCA) is being shaped - and by whom. eeb.org/en/library/c...

🚨 One year after the deadline, most countries still haven’t submitted their Social Climate Plans. That means €85 billion in EU funding meant for people is still not reaching them 😡 🏠 Renovations, clean heating, affordable transport still waiting Time to deliver: life-effect.org/2026/06/30/e...

Denmark is acting on #NitratePollution to protect health and the public purse. The rest of Europe deserves the same ⚖️ That’s why we joined farmers, environmental and civil organisations in urging the EU Commission to uphold and strengthen vital protections, not weaken them eeb.org/en/library/j...

💧 EU ministers are pushing back against plans to reopen the Water Framework Directive. Spain, Hungary, France and Denmark say the current law is already flexible enough for large projects, including mining. Water authorities agree. Is Commissioner Jessika Roswall listening? #HandsOffNature

⚡️Not all heroes wear capes. These little machines are Europe's most powerful energy security tool. 💸 🏠 Across Europe, 29 million heat pumps now provide as much heat as more than 200 LNG tankers. Last year alone, they saved Europeans €9.7 billion in gas imports.

Heat pumps are saving Europe billions by lowering gas imports

A new analysis says that heat pumps avoided a staggering €9.7 billion in import costs alone last year.

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Where there’s a #heatwave there’s… smog?!😷🥵 As temperatures soar, dangerous levels of ground-level #ozone are surging, creating an invisible toxic photochemical smog #Methane is one of the biggest culprits behind its formation. But little is being done to tackle emissions 👉 eeb.org/en/heatwaves...

HOT OFF THE PRESS: Europe reshapes car rules 🚘 The European Parliament has just greenlighted new rules to reduce the environmental impact of cars across their full lifecycle. Read our assessment with @umwelthilfe.bsky.social: eeb.org/en/new-eu-la...

The debate was never climate vs competitiveness ❌ It has always been about which industries shape Europe's future: those investing in decarbonisation and innovation, or those profiting from pollution and delay. Weakening carbon pricing doesn't help industry. It punishes frontrunners 🏭🌿

First movers risk losing out in EU green policy pullback

Companies that acted early to decarbonise now face uncertainty as Brussels waters down climate targets

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🐖 Denmark’s “pig election” shows people want action on pollution from industrial farming. The government promises cleaner water, stronger climate action & better animal welfare 💚 Yet EU plans to weaken manure rules... With nitrate pollution rising, it's time to defend protections 💪😬 @desmog.com 🗞️

💅🏽 Think you’ve got what it takes to join Brussels's hottest comms team? We’re hiring a Communications Officer at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), Europe’s largest network of environmental citizens’ organisations. 🧵👇

The #EUEcolabel is a triple win for people, businesses and the environment alike, and this is why we have been promoting it for a long time💚 At our webinar hosted with @beuc.eu & @ecopreneur-eu.bsky.social today, we heard firsthand from companies and @danskerhverv.dk how it is making a difference🧵👇

🚨 #TFA, one of the most widespread #PFAS, must be classified as reprotoxic, according to @echa.europa.eu expert committee RAC. But classification won't stop pollution. @ec.europa.eu must ensure a full TFA phase-out under the #uPFAS restriction to prevent pollution at the source #ToxicFreeFuture