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🔴 LIVE: Driving sustainable development: the crucial contributions of Human Rights Defenders to the 2030 Agenda 📺 Follow our side event here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k… #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

"The chemical industry has been using PFAS without enforcement or oversight for decades. These forever chemicals are now being discovered in the most remote regions of the world" says WHRD Emily Donovan Emily Donovan from the #USA Clean Cape Fear #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

"It isn’t a problem just for contaminated communities like mine, it’s a problem for the entire world. PFAS are likely in the blood of everyone in the room." - WHRD Emily Donovan Emily Donovan from the #USA Clean Cape Fear #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

"Corporations have profited off these toxins for decades. They must be held accountable & take responsibility for the illnesses they caused. They may have the money but we have the people. Together we will win" - WHRD Emily Donovan Emily Donovan from the #USA #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

"PFAS are known as forever chemicals. There is no proven safe disposals methods. This isn’t just a problem for contaminated communities like mine, this is a problem for communities around the world.” - NPCC member Emily Donovan of Clean Cape Fear

"Corporations have profited off these toxins for decades. They must be held accountable & take responsibility for the illnesses they caused. They may have the money but we have the people. Together we will win." - Emily Donovan of Clean Cape Fear

"As a group and as a coalition there are three things that we demand: 1. End all #PFAS exposures, 2. Make Polluters Pay, and 3. Known the Health Risks." - Emily Donovan of Clean Cape Fear

"Tap water is a basic human right, it is a sacred source. To live in the richest country in the world & question whether you can turn on the tap, feeling unsafe, you know there is something wrong" - WHRD Emily Donovan Emily Donovan from the #USA @cleancapefear #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

Many thanks to all those who took part in this side event. It was very moving to hear the testimonies of HRDs Wellington Gabriel Pacifico from #Brazil & Emily Donovan from the #US, who both do crucial work to advance the Sustainable Development Goals. #HRDsAndSDGs #UNGA79

📣 If you missed our #UNGA79 side event yesterday about HRDs working to advance the #SDGs, with testimonies from Wellington Gabriel Wellington Gabriel Pacifico & Emily Donovan Emily Donovan, a recording is available thanks to UN Web TV 📺 Watch it here: webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1m/k… #HRDsAndSDGs

At the UN General Assembly last month, I called upon member states to stop hiding behind smokescreens & start applying human rights standards consistently when it comes to protecting human rights defenders. They know what to do, they just don't do it. #UNGA79

Yup. Makes so sense. Would love to hear from these voters.

Donovan credited the current president for finalizing the PFAS drinking water standard, but at the same time, she said she is “begging the Biden administration to allow the EPA to propose a rule to limit PFAS discharges.” thehill.com/policy/energy-…

“Please do not fail us,” she said. “Do it for the children in my region who no longer have their moms or dads.”

welcome to the matrix

Meanwhile, coastal NC residents are seeing home insurance rates spike bc frequent natural disaster payouts due to climate change are crippling the state insurance industry. State Farm in CA is already requesting emergency rate hikes. HSR is 90% more carbon efficient than driving.

Someone check this guy’s portfolio

I’ve spent the last 8 years working on a book about forever chemicals, or #PFAS, and the chemical industry’s decades-long campaign to cover up their dangers. What I discovered along the way is more disturbing than I could have imagined, and yet the journey has left me deeply

Today is the day! After eight long years, They Poisoned the World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals is out. 1/ Crown Publishing #PFAS penguinrandomhouse.com/books/554198/t…