Too little, too late: EU chemical reforms threaten to roll back public health protections
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The European Commission’s new plan to overhaul the EU’s main chemical regulation, REACH, risks undoing two decades of progress in protecting people and nature from toxic substances.  On 3 April, the Commission presented proposed changes to EU Member State representatives at the 54th CARACAL meeting, calling th ...
  • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    People somehow can’t appreciate environmental protection. “What do we need green parties for? Our rivers used to be bright yellow but now they’re all clean! See? We don’t need environmentalists!” is something I’ve heard a couple times in some shape or form lately. We’ll soon see what a major shift to the right will do to our way of living.

    • pulsey@feddit.orgEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      thats like removing a speed limit on highways after it helped reducing fatal accidents.