European citizens’ initiative to #StopGlyphosate
Brussels, 8 February 2017 – Health and environment groups met in Brussels and other European cities (Madrid, Rome, Berlin and Paris) today to launch a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban…
Brussels, 8 February 2017 – Health and environment groups met in Brussels and other European cities (Madrid, Rome, Berlin and Paris) today to launch a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban…
Brussels, 8 February 2017 – Campaigners and activists met in Brussels and other European cities (Madrid, Rome, Berlin and Paris) today to launch a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to ban glyphosate,…
Brussels, 6 February, 2017 – HEAL has launched its new campaign focused on health as a driver to accelerate the end of fossil fuel subsidies. What is this campaign about? Fossil…
19 January 2017, Brussels - Representing hundreds of environmental and health organisations in all 28 European Union Member States and further afield, 14 NGOs are calling for immediate action and answers…
PRESS RELEASE (Original in French) EXPPERT Survey 8: Exposure to endocrine-disrupting pesticides in water Générations Futures EXPPERT survey 8 uses government reports on water quality in France as the basis…
Environment Committee of the European Parliament votes against recommendations to protect chemical safety. Brussels, 12 January 2017 – Thirty-five organizations committed to maintaining effective chemical safety regulation in Europe are dismayed…
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals — One more way CETA endangers public health and the environment Dear MEP La Via, Dear ENVI Committee Members, On behalf of 35 public interest organisations, we…
Brussels, 9 January 2017 – A study published today shows that low levels of exposure to the weed killer Roundup over a long period of time can cause liver disease in…
Effective emissions limits could save thousands of lives every year, yet more than half of coal power stations in Europe are operating with ‘permission to pollute’ above limits set in…
HEAL, together with Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, the WWF European Policy Office and Sandbag launched a new report entitled ‘Europe’s Dark Cloud: How coal-burning countries are making their neighbours…
A new publication in German by HEAL aims to shed light on a neglected topic among the German public: this is how measures to tackle climate change such as cleaner…
Brussels/Sarajevo, 15 March 2016 – First-ever estimates of the huge health costs associated with air pollution from coal power plants in the Western Balkans are released today. (1) The costings…
This HEAL briefing looks at health concerns related to chemicals in food contact materials in Europe. It addresses the current legislative system for these materials and defines what is missing…