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2013

MAY

• Unacceptable Levels Documentary video on demand release set for July 15
  Wall Street Journal, 2 May 2013

APRIL

• Scientific Evidence of Health Effects from Coal Use in Energy Generation
  HCWH & University of Illinois at Chicago report, April 2013

MARCH

• Partner Spotlight: Julia Huscher, Coal and Health Officer at HEAL
  TckTckTck, 20 March 2013

• La société civile est-elle une source d’expertise sur les risques? Le Monde, 19 March 2013

• Air pollution: Europe’s avoidable health risk
  The Lancet, 16 March 2013

• Health groups call for phase out of coal power stations
  British Medical Journal, 12 March 2013

• Air pollution puts UK in the dock and Europe in the red
  Euractiv, 7 March 2013

• Un rapport dénonce la nocivité des centrales au charbon
  Le Monde, 7 March 2013

• Coal Kills - Time to Kill Coal
  Huffington Post, 7 March 2013

Media coverage updated 9 April 2013 here

FEBRUARY

• Film showing effects of chemicals on human health wins award
  Chemical Watch, 27 February 2013

JANUARY

• L’Europe doit mieux tenir en compte des alertes selon un rapport de l’AEE
  La Gazette Santé-Social, 25 January 2013

• Sécurité sanitaire: l’Europe doit mieux tenir en compte des alertes
  Romandie, 25 January 2013

2012

DECEMBER

• Taoiseach urged to promote green EU
  Irish Times, 10 December 2012

NOVEMBER

• Letter: US paediatricians advise to go organic and avoid pesticides
  Irish Medical News, 6 November 2012
  (This letter related to the biomonitoring results from Irish Doctors Medical Association, a HEAL member organisation)

OCTOBER

• Chemical levels in people “not a high concern”
  ENDS Europe (subscription only), 29 October, 2012

• EU-funded research shows mothers, children exposed to chemicals
  Euractiv, 26 October 2012

• First pan-Europe biomonitoring study shows great variation
  Chemical Watch (subscription only), 25 October 2012

SEPTEMBER

• “Citizens against cancer” (2011)
  Re-screening3 Sat TV, Swiss TV, 18 September 2012

JULY

• Environmental groups criticise European Commission’s environmental record
  British Medical Journal, 9 July 2012

• EU commission told to use ’green measures’ to help tackle economic crisis
  The Parliament.com, 3 July 2012

• EU Lacks Courage on Environmental Policies, Green Lobbies Say
  Bloomburg, 3 July 2012

• EU/Energie/Umwelt/ Umweltorganisationen werfen EU-Kommission Versäumnisse vor
  DPA (German news agency), 3 July 2012

• Ecologistas piden a la CE más firmeza contra la contaminación del aire
  EFE (Spanish news agency), 3 July 2012

• EU NGOs criticise Commission on chemicals activities
  Chemical Watch (subscription only), 3 July 2012

• Three months after our work with CHEM Trust in the promotion of their report on chemical exposures’ links to obesity and diabetes, 14 new links have been added to the media coverage (two global, 12 European) including a new country, Central African Republic. Link to full report.

JUNE

• European Council: ‘Green 10’ NGOs propose stimulus measures to exit crisis
  Europolitics: (subscription only), 28 June 2012

• Ministers set out 2050 vision for a ’green Europe’
  Euractiv, 12 June 2012 - also available in FR

• EU Ministers demand action on chemicals in 7th EAP
  Chemical Watch, 11 June 2012

• The European Example: What have we learnt about health and the environment? by Genon K. Jensen and Lisette van Vliet, HEAL
  San Francisco Medical Journal, Issue on Environmental Health, page 28, June 2012

MAY

• Interview in Brussels with leading US scientist Shanna Swan, organised by HEAL
  Euractiv, May 2012

• NGOs fear biased EU guidance on health risks
  ENDS Europe, 22 May 2012

• US lawmakers call for action on halogenated flame retardants
  Chemical Watch, 17 May 2012

• Industry, NGO respond to evidence that BPA alters mammary gland development
  Chemical Watch, 9 May 2012

• Chemical effects on the brain and behaviour
  Chemical Watch, 9 May 2012

APRIL

• NGOs push for action on chemicals under 7EAP
  ENDS Europe Daily (subscription only), 11 April 2012

• CHEM Trust’s new report, “Review of the science linking chemical exposures to the human risk of obesity and diabetes” resulted in over 120 articles published in 15 European and 16 other countries. The report was featured in leading national newspapers in UK, France, Ireland, Spain and Belgium and on national television in Germany. Full final report of coverage [here

FEBRUARY - MARCH

• “Cut emissions, boost health”
  European Voice, 2 February 2012

• Launch of the European Commission report on the assessment of endocrine disruptors
  ENDS Europe Daily, 21 February 2012

JANUARY

• Environmental NGO calls for study on health effects of fracking
  Chemical Watch, 12 January 2012

• Fuelling Ireland’s public health problems
  Irish Medical Times, 23 January 2012