Today, the EU Parliament voted on the new taxonomy for sustainable investments, which is meant to provide a common language for what activities are sustainable and which are not. Unfortunately, the Parliament vote rendered support for nuclear energy and gas to be included in the taxonomy and thereby viewed as sustainable.
For how much longer dare investors ignore the impact of chemicals?
While more investors are now actively considering how the transition to a low-carbon economy might impact the future performance of various companies, the potential risks associated with companies producing hazardous chemicals are still underestimated.
European teenagers are high – on PFAS
According to a large-scale human biomonitoring study, HBM4EU, high levels of PFAS have been found in the blood of teenagers in all nine of the examined European countries.
The five stages of chemical grief
ChemSec’s Communication Officer Karin Forslund recounts her first steps as a new employee with the NGO and likens the experience to a grieving process.
Time to break up with toxic makeup
The fact that the EU’s cosmetic regulation is terrible is one of Europe’s worst-kept secrets. It allows for using several well-known hazardous chemicals in the products we apply to our faces. The good thing is that the Commission has promised to change it – but the current public consultation makes us wonder where the ambitions lie?
What’s your poison? For sperm – it’s chemical cocktails
A new study shows that the broad mixtures of chemicals, which most humans are exposed to on a regular basis, pose a great threat to male fertility.
The huge problem of microplastics
Microplastics are a growing concern, and they are everywhere: in oceans and on mountain peaks, in food chains and ecosystems, in the most remote locations – even in our lungs and blood.
9 out of 10 items in EU’s new product database contain lead
7.5 million articles containing hazardous substances have so far been submitted to the SCIP database. Out of these, 94 percent contain lead. A substance that even the ancient Greeks knew to be highly harmful to humans.
A plastic industry association “corrected” us on PTFE in an open letter – this is our reply
Earlier this year, we wrote an article about the Teflon chemical PTFE. We then received an open letter from the German plastic industry association PRO-Kunststoff, questioning some of the claims we made in the article. Here’s the letter, along with ChemSec’s answers to it.
How many PFAS bans does it take to ban PFAS?
How many PFAS bans does it take to ban PFAS? Tweet There are so many current and upcoming regulations regarding the restriction of PFAS on EU level that they have started to overlap. But that’s a good thing, right –...