Check out new ‘The Pollution Playbook: how industry blocks regulation of toxic chemicals’ briefing by @ciel.org and @corporateeurope on the deceptive tactics used by chemicals industry to keep producing & using their toxic products.
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https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
Briefing looks at industry’s deceptive tactics to avoid regulation.
These can include:
⚠️ Not sharing damaging knowledge
⚠️ Undermining independent science
⚠️ Pointing to other causes for harms
⚠️ Intimidation
⚠️ Developing PR campaigns
⚠️ Using front groups
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
Check out the briefing's 4 case studies:
🏭 Industry withholding knowledge - #PFAS
🏭 Industry undermining independent science - #BisphenolA
🏭 Industry establishing front groups - #Benzene
🏭 Industry combining disinformation strategies - #Pesticides
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
Briefing comes as inaugural panel of Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution gets going in Geneva.
Find out more about science disinformation & corporate capture at recent Geneva Environment Network event
Industry can downplay or manipulate science to resist regulation.
We need:
✅ to protect health & environment
✅ to ban toxics producers in regulatory processes
✅ conflict-of-interest rules
✅ lobby transparency
✅ independent science
✅ #ToxicFreePolitics
https://www.corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/pollution-playbook
Corporate Europe Observatory