Today’s vote in the EP Environment Committee on the deregulation of New GMOs (NGTs) is the next betrayal of the EU Green Deal in the European Parliament, after the SUR debacle (pesticide reduction) and Nature Restoration Law (NRL). Too many MEPs have shamefully fallen for the years long corporate lobby campaign.

Both at work and in everyday consumer products, people in Europe are exposed to high levels of harmful chemicals that pose a threat to human health and the environment. The European Commission’s proposal for an ‘essential use’ concept (EUC) could streamline the regulation of such hazardous substances and speed-up the shift to safer alternatives. It could be published before the European elections. However, the chemicals industry and its allies have been lobbying to undermine the proposal, and with the postponement of the Commission's key chemicals reform (the revision of the REACH regulation)

New evidence reveals how Big Toxics and its allies have used misleading narratives to try to weaken the concept of ‘essential use’, to create regulatory loopholes for their hazardous products, and ultimately derailing the Commission’s flagship chemicals reform.

The European Parliament (and the EU member states' governments) is debating a new law for new GMOs that would come down to a complete deregulation: no more safety checks, mandatory traceability, nor labelling on the end product. This would mean that GM food could come on our fields and plates untested and unlabelled. Ask your MEPs to support strict regulations for all new GMOs to preserve our freedom of choice, health, and environment!

Following a report by DeSmog, Corporate Europe Observatory has today demanded an investigation into unregistered influencing activity by European Livestock Voice (ELV).

Another year, another COP. Listen to our new podcast episode of EU Watchdog Radio, where Pascoe Sabido spills the tea of what went down in Dubai.

During the cost-of-living crisis the employers’ organisation BusinessEurope has turned a blind eye to the link between industry's super profits and inflation. Their refrain is that wage moderation is the key to fight inflation. Their message: wage earners should pay for the crisis, not corporate profiteers.

Despite the hailed deal to “transition away from fossil fuels”, the 2023 UN climate summit’s text has the oily fingerprints of the fossil fuel lobby all over it. COP28 is more likely to facilitate a fossil fuel frenzy by cementing false solutions.

Here's a compilation of the videos we have produced for COP28, from myth busters to explanatory videos!

To make the COP28 outcome truly “historic”, we need to free the talks — and our political and economic systems — from the oily grip of the fossil fuel industry. Op-ed in Euronews.