This week, Members of the EU Parliament will have the opportunity to engage in a public debate with the European Commission about its plans to reduce harmful exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs).
Bulgarian health community highlights the huge health benefits of refusing giving derogations or pollution exemptions for Bulgrarian coal power plants for the sake of (1) improving air quality, (2) reducing…
More than 25 NGOs working in Turkey released a joint statement urging Turkish decision makers to focus on raising ambition, and reaping the benefits of a low-carbon just transition at…
On Monday 26 November, members of the EU Parliament Environment Committee will exchange views on the extension of chlorpyrifos with the European Commission. HEAL urges them to protect our health and to ask for an immediate ban on this pesticide in the EU.
22 Civil Society Organisations have sent a letter to Members of the European Parliament in regards to the EU Recast Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs), urging them to uphold the EU’s international obligations on POPs under the Stockholm Convention.
HEAL joins six environment NGOs to express concerns on the authorisation for several uses of carcinogenic chromate substances, ahead of a REACH Committee Meeting.
The organisers of the European Citizens’ Initiative to Ban Glyphosate call on the EU to conclude the decision-making process for greater transparency of food safety decisions before the upcoming European election.
HEAL as one of 31 networks and organisation has ahead of the upcoming trilogue meeting on the Electricity Market Regulation urged EU ministers to ensure that capacity mechanisms remain a…
HEAL has joined a group of eleven health and environment groups to express concerns about some of the proposed amendments and changes to the Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs).
As discussions about a European Commission proposal on the transparency of EU food safety data are underway in both the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union, organisers of the #StopGlyphosate European Citizens’ Initiative warn that the proposal must be amended in order to live up to its promising objectives.
Under the seventh Environmental Action Plan (7th EAP), the European Commission is committed to the development of a Union’s strategy for a non-toxic environment by the end of 2018. According…
Brussels – Ahead of an important REACH committee meeting, during which the proposed classification of titanium dioxide (a nanomaterial) as a suspected carcinogen under the CLP regulation will be discussed, the…
Brussels - The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has been favouring industry during its initial gathering of evidence on microplastics, prompting environmental organisations to remind ECHA not to overlook or underestimate…
