The Tyee: Canada Will Start Regulating ‘Forever Chemicals.’ What to Know https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2023/07/06/Canada-Regulating-Forever-Chemicals/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #long-chainperfluorocarboxylicacids #perfluorohexanesulfonicacid #perfluorooctanesulfonicacid #polyfluoroalkylsubstances #perfluorooctanoicacid #StockholmConvention #foreverchemicals

by @jwinters in @grist:

"[P]arties to the Stockholm Convention — an international treaty regulating hazardous pollutants — agreed to add three new chemicals to a list of globally banned substances, including the plastic additives UV-328 and Dechlorane Plus."

https://grist.org/regulation/more-than-150-countries-agree-to-ban-3-toxic-chemicals/

#ToxicChemicals #methoxychlor #UV328 #DechloranePlus #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #climate #pollution #StockholmConvention

Regulations for persistent substances must be #precautionary to prevent their poorly reversible accumulation in the environment, and NOT just #reactionary like the #StockholmConvention, requiring proof of - or damage from - accumulation in the environment.

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Big, ambitious paper by @ModelerLi, @KnutBreivik and co-authors in @EnvSciRSC.

Inventories and emission estimates for 25 #StockholmConvention #POPs from 1930 until 2020!

I hope all this hard work will become #OpenData...
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Check out our latest @EnvSciRSC review paper: By 2020, the world has historically synthesized & produced *31 million* tonnes of persistent organic pollutants @POPsChemicals, resulting in total rel…
https://twitter.com/ModelerLi/status/1592997872450277376