116 Scientists ask for revision of World Health Organization’s draft PFAS guidelines
More than 115 scientists have asked the World Health Organization for a complete overhaul or withdrawal of the organisation’s draft drinking water guidelines for two of the most well-studied per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), namely PFOS and PFOA.
29 NGOs call on EU Parliament and Council to support the Commission’s proposal on the SUR, despite attacks to weaken and delay its adoption
29 NGOs strongly condemn attacks to weaken the ambition of the proposal for a Sustainable Use of Plant Protection Products Regulation (SUR) and to delay its adoption.
Luftqualität: Gesundheit durch neue Standards schützen
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…
Environmental health groups urge national governments to play their part to ensure reforms of key chemical legislations make speedy progress
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.
EU leaders: reaffirm Europe’s leadership in clean air policies
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…
Letter to European Commission: Civil society vision on how the EU can deliver the European Green Deal and address the multiple crises we face
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.
100+ organisations call for stricter, WHO aligned EU air pollution limits
Exactly one year after the World Health Organization (WHO), after a systematic review of the science, published new Global Air Quality Guidelines with recommendations for maximum concentrations of the major air pollutants, more than 100 organisations in 17 EU countries have called on their health and environment ministers to save lives and protect nature from air pollution with science-based EU air quality standards.
Letter: Over 35 organisations welcome long-awaited EU Commission proposal to restrict intentionally-added microplastics
HEAL and over 35 organisations urge member states to defend the proposal and to ensure the measures adopted meet the ambitions set out in the EU Plastics Strategy and EU Green Deal commitments.
Joint statement of EU environmental organisations on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive under the REPowerEU plan
The joint statement by Green10, EuroNatur and Clientearth highlights that Europe must find the right balance between accelerated renewable deployment, energy efficiency, public participation, and nature protection. Read the full…
Letter to MEPs: Wood burning harms our health and fuels climate change
HEAL, together with the German Alliance on Climate Change and Health (KLUG e.V.), the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), the German Public Health Association (DGPH) and KlimaDocs e.V. has today sent a letter to Members of European Parliament calling on them to stop classifying wood as a renewable energy source in RED III and to end subsidies for wood as an energy source.
Joint letter: Restriction of bisphenols under the REACH Regulation – setting the right precedent
Nine health and environmental groups have written to the German Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection regarding the upcoming proposal to restrict Bisphenol A and structurally related bisphenols of similar concern under the REACH Regulation.
Letter to PAFF Committee: Call to adopt without delay the Implementing Regulation harmonising the content and format of the pesticide use records
58 organisations across Europe are calling on representatives of national governments and members of the PAFF Committee to adopt without delay the Implementation Regulation harmonising the content and format of the pesticide use records.
Joint letter from health organisations to the European Parliament’s ITRE committe: vote on REDIII and biomass
The letter calls on MEPs in the committee to no longer classify wood as a renewable energy source in the new RED III and to stop subsidies for wood as an energy source.
Letter to European Parliament: Keep the EU Taxonomy fossil gas free for better health – vote against the delegated act
HEAL has sent a letter to Members of European Parliament, calling to keep the EU Taxonomy fossil gas free for better health - vote against the delegated act. The much…
Letter to EU energy ministers: Ending the EU’s fossil fuel dependency for better health
HEAL has sent a letter to EU energy ministers ahead of their meeting on 27 June 2022 calling on them to end the EU’s fossil fuel dependency for better health.
