Health and Environment Alliance

A new infographic from the UBDPolicy project — in which HEAL is a partner — shows how noise pollution impacts health, a key issue in cities.

Ahead of the members of the European Parliament discussing discussing the Cyprus Presidency’s negotiating proposal for the next Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) 2028-34 on the 17 June, HEAL has sent a letter to MEPs, calling on them to place particular emphasis on increasing public investments for disease prevention, health resilience to climate change and pollution prevent...

The European Court of Justice dismissed the appeal from pesticide manufacturers to challenge once again the non-renewal of the pesticide chlorpyrifos-methyl. Studies show that chlorpyrifos-methyl can impact brain development (developmental neurotoxicity) and cause DNA damage (genotoxicity) – both potentially leading to adverse effects across generations.

The Food and Feed Safety simplification omnibus proposal puts health at risk. Health groups have significant concerns that this proposal, as well as some amendments proposed by the co-legislators, would lead to a weakening of key health protective provisions...

Transposing the EU Ambient Air Quality Directive: The role of the health sector   Air pollution is the European Union’s single greatest environmental health threat, contributing to hundreds of thousands of premature deaths each year and billions of euros in health-related costs, from hospitalisations and sick days to rising medication use. It is a major…