Health and Environment Alliance | Letters

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

Joint letter: Restriction of bisphenols under the REACH Regulation – setting the right precedent

26th July 2022

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

11th July 2022

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

8th July 2022

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

1st July 2022

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

22nd June 2022

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.

Joint NGO letter to the members of the REACH Committee on the restriction of microplastics, restriction of lead in PVC and identification of resorcinol as a SVHC

16th June 2022

Response from EU Commission to Green 10 letter on withdrawing the Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act

24th May 2022

The Green 10 have received a reply from the European Commission to a joint letter on withdrawing the Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act from 16 March 2022.

Green 10 letter to EU Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans on REPowerEU package and environmental roll-back

17th May 2022

The Green 10 have written to Vice-President Timmermans in advance of the publication of the REPowerEU package on 18 May: We strongly support accelerating renewables as part of the EU’s…

Joint letter: NGOs address their concerns regarding the PFHxA restriction and the restriction proposal for PFAS in firefighting foams

16th May 2022

Reply from European Commision to civil society letter calling to save lives, protect nature from air pollution with science-based revised EU air quality standards

27th April 2022

On 22 March, HEAL, together with 35+ medical, health, environmental, public health civil society organisations has sent a letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides, calling on them…

Green 10 letter to the European Commission calling for the RePowerEU plan to support a phaseout of fossil fuels and nuclear energy

22nd April 2022

The Green 10 have sent a letter to European Commission President Von der Leyen, with copy to Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal Timmermans and Commissioner for Energy Simson,…

European Commission reply to Green 10 letter on taxonomy complementary delegated act

19th April 2022

The European Commission has sent a reply to a Green 10 letter on the taxonomy complementary delegated act, sent on 28 January 2022. The reply can be found here.

Letter: Civil society call to save lives, protect nature from air pollution with science-based revised EU air quality standards

22nd March 2022

HEAL, together with 35+ medical, health, environmental, public health civil society organisations has sent a letter to European Commission Executive Vice-President Timmermans, Commissioners Sinkevičius and Kyriakides, calling on them and…

Joint open letter on the publication of the revision of the legislation on the sustainable use of pesticides

21st March 2022

Joint open letter: Publication of the revision of the legislation on the sustainable use of pesticides (SUD)

21st March 2022

More than 60 health and environment groups have written to EU Commission President von der Leyen, Executive Vice-President Timmermans and Commissioners Kyriakides, Wojciechowski and Sinkevicius to not postpone the much…

G10 letter to European Commission President on withdrawing the Taxonomy Complementary Delegated Act

16th March 2022

Letter: 79 organisations call for better data on pesticides to better protect people and the environment

25th February 2022

Thousands of tonnes of pesticides are sold in the EU every year, yet we do not know which ones are used where and in what quantities. 70+ organisations are voicing their concerns on the EU reform of pesticides statistics.

Joint civil society statement on the revision of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and the Regulation establishing a European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register (E-PRTR)

18th February 2022