Health and Environment Alliance

Joint letter to Executive Vice-President Vestager on Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework

1st March 2023

ClientEarth, CAN Europe, CEE Bankwatch, E3G and HEAL have sent a joint letter to Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager concerning the leaked draft Temporary Crisis and Transition Framework (“TCTF”) and our concerns by the direction taken.

NGO Letter to the European Commission: Need to update REACH information requirements

27th February 2023

Several NGOs, including HEAL, sent a letter to Executive Vice President Timmermans and Commissioners Breton, Sinkevičius and Kyriakides in February 2023 to call them for an update of REACH information requirements.

Joint letter to the REACH Committee: Restriction of Intentionally-added Microplastics, and Chemical Authorisation Concerns

23rd February 2023

Seventeen NGOs, including HEAL, wrote a joint letter to the REACH Committee ahead of their meeting on March 1st 2023, to urge the Committee to support a restriction that would include all microplastics, and to address other chemical authorisation concerns.

Joint letter to EU environment ministers: Health groups’ recommendations to step up on clean air for health with science-based air quality standards

15th December 2022

HEAL, together with CPME, EFA, AIM, EPHA and Mutualites Libres, has today sent a joint letter to EU environment ministers who are currently considering the proposal to revise the EU’s ambient air quality directives (AAQD), a cornerstone for the protection of people’s health and the environment from air pollution...

Joint letter to Commissioner Stella Kyriakides: Take the side of European people and ban glyphosate

14th December 2022

Health Care without Harm (HCWH), EurEau and HEAL call on the European Commission to phase out dental amalgam by 2025, and not delay the Mercury Regulation

12th December 2022

HEAL calls on the permanent representations to the EU to prioritise the protection of people’s health and oppose a complementary impact assessment on the SUR proposal

9th December 2022

116 Scientists ask for revision of World Health Organization’s draft PFAS guidelines

15th November 2022

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.

Open letter to the European Commission: Reuse and prevention at the core of packaging law to achieve circularity, decarbonisation and strategic independence

10th November 2022

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

10th November 2022

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

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…

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.

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…

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.

Joint letter to President Ursula Von der Leyen: REACH and CLP reforms

28th September 2022

100+ organisations call for stricter, WHO aligned EU air pollution limits

22nd September 2022

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

19th September 2022

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

13th September 2022

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

7th September 2022

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.

Letter to European Chemicals Agency (ECHA): Restrictions of PFHxA and PFAS in firefighting foams

16th August 2022

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