Health and Environment Alliance | October 2022

Why melamine should be added to REACH’s blacklist of harmful chemicals

31st October 2022

Melamine's potential irreversible impacts on health and the environment warrant regulatory action now. Here are 6 things you need to know about this harmful chemical (and why we support Germany's proposal to identify it as a substance of very high concern).

Luftqualität: Gesundheit durch neue Standards schützen

28th October 2022

Luftqualität: Gesundheit durch neue Standards schützen Hohe Risiken für akute und chronische Krankheiten durch Feinstaub und Stickstoffdioxid Hannover/Brüssel, 28.10.2022. Die Gefahr ist unsichtbar: Luftverschmutzung ist ein großer umweltbedingter Risikofaktor für die…

2022 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown: The health of people around the world is at the mercy of a persistent fossil fuel addiction

27th October 2022

The Lancet Countdown team has published its 2022 report, tracking the relationship between health and climate change across five key domains and 43 indicators. “It shows that the world is…

Air pollution law revision can be a game changer for zero-pollution ambition

27th October 2022

Today, the European Commission released the proposed update to the Ambient Air Quality Directives (AAQD), the first one since 2008. As part of the Zero Pollution Package, this proposal has…

Reactions from the health community on the European Commission’s proposal on updating the Ambient Air Quality Directive

26th October 2022

The European Commission’s proposal on the revision of the Ambient Air Quality Directive fails to address the urgency to act, to swiftly reduce the health burden. Reactions from the health community:

Environmental health groups urge national governments to play their part to ensure reforms of key chemical legislations make speedy progress

25th October 2022

HEAL and 14 environmental health organisations call on European governments to keep pressing the European Commission to deliver the promised reforms of the REACH and CLP regulations, and to support the proposal for a new pesticide reduction law.

HEAL at WHO Bonn Dialogue on Environment and Health: risk communication for environment and health

20th October 2022

HEAL’s Anne Stauffer spoke at the fourth of a series of high-level Bonn Dialogues on Environment and Health, held by the WHO European Centre for Environment and Health (ECEH), under…

EU leaders: reaffirm Europe’s leadership in clean air policies

20th October 2022

Joint letter by C40, Clean Cities Campaign, European Cyclists' Federation, Transport & Environment and HEAL, calling to Fully align EU limit values for pollutants with the global air quality guidelines…

Health leaders speak out against pesticide pollution in Europe

19th October 2022

Health leaders across Europe are calling for urgent measures to reduce exposure to harmful pesticides following their participation in the citizens’ science project ‘the Pesticide-CheckUp’, results of which were published…

Joint statement on the revision of lists of surface and groundwater pollutants

19th October 2022

Letter to European Commission: Civil society vision on how the EU can deliver the European Green Deal and address the multiple crises we face

14th October 2022

The Green 10 wrote to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Vice President Frans Timmermans, Vice President Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, Commissioners Thierry Breton and Virginijus Sinkevičius to express their concern that the Commission’s Letter of Intent listing priority initiatives for 2023 failed to mention a number of the priority legislative files expected for the European Commission to publish in 2023 based on earlier plans by the European Commission.

HEAL comments on the SVHC identification proposal for 4,4’-sulphonyldiphenol (Bisphenol S; BPS)

13th October 2022

HEAL comments on the European Commission’s proposal for new hazard classes under the CLP Regulation

13th October 2022

HEAL comments on SVHC identification proposal for Perfluoroheptanoic acid (PFHpA) and its salts as a SVHC

13th October 2022

Civil society groups urge the EU to keep their promises to ban ‘forever chemicals’ PFAS

12th October 2022

46 European civil society organisations urgently demand EU member states and the Commission to ban all PFAS in consumer products by 2025 and across all uses by 2030.

HEAL comments on SVHC identification of Isobutyl 4-hydroxybenzoate

11th October 2022

Webinar: Outside the Safe Operating Space of a PFAS Planetary Boundary

6th October 2022

Current pesticide reduction measures fail to protect vulnerable groups from pesticide pollution, new study from Italy shows

4th October 2022

A study carried out in the Italian province of Bolzano-South Tyrol reveals that despite measures taken by local authorities to reduce pesticide pollution, synthetic pesticides that can harm health and the environment are still detected in nearby children's playgrounds and schoolyards.