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These are chemical substances that can act like a hormone. Various animal studies have shown that BPA can have similar effects to the hormone estrogen. An excess of these chemicals in the body can lead to metabolic disorders. Therefore, they are associated with overweight, obesity or impaired fertility. About it...
Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out
States, because Joe Biden's "generous support through the subsidy program" is causing very similar problems for Europe. April 4 PFAS | eternity poison | Clothing Outdoor clothing contaminated with chemicals: Toxic children's jackets on the market According to tests, there are dangerous “forever chemicals” in outdoor clothing. NGOs criticize their use because there are alternatives. BERLIN taz | The April...
Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD
which simultaneously generate electrical and thermal energy in a power plant. This is followed by emissions from steam crackers at 24 percent. These are systems that are needed to produce basic chemicals, which require very high temperatures. Ammonia plants follow in third place with a share of 14 percent. Basically, the production of...
Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good
But the amount produced in 2019 alone could exceed the maximum values from back then, researchers report. The substances accumulate in the food chain. PCB chemicals have actually been banned for decades, including in Germany. But according to a study, the industry continues to produce them on a large scale - as a common by-product. [...] Polychlorinated biphenyls – PCBs – were...
did not take sufficient account of the fact that there are dangerous factories in the vicinity of the French Gravelines, Saint-Alban and Tricastin nuclear power plants in which, for example, chemicals are produced. On February 11, 2015, the French nuclear regulator ASN approved an extension of the operating time for the Tricastin-2 reactor by another ten years, as well as on June 9, 2015 for...
State repairs: Anyone who has broken electrical and electronic devices repaired there will receive half of the repair costs back from the state, up to a maximum of 200 euros per repair... * Health | Chemicals | harmful to reproduction Cause still unclear Researchers discover toxic plasticizers in urine samples The substances have been banned or strictly regulated for years. Nevertheless, it finds...
Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy
(DAC) and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), we simply fish the greenhouse molecules out of the air or exhaust gases, then we can continue burning oil and gas, so the narrative goes... * Chemicals | Bisphenol Dealing with bisphenol A: Doctors demand more precautions 56 doctors call for a different way of dealing with chemicals. You criticize the federal government's health protection...
* France | Food | PFAS Paris warns against privately kept eggs due to PFAS contamination. According to health authorities, the soil around Paris is excessively contaminated with so-called eternal chemicals. Privately kept eggs could be harmful to health, but other foods are also affected. In the greater Paris area, health authorities advise...
over. You should know these terms. Overview: Abraham Accords Occupied Territories Fatah Gaza Strip Golan Heights Hamas and much more. *PFAS | Chemical industry | Eternal poison Fight against the eternal chemicals PFAS are water and dirt repellent, acid resistant, pressure and heat resistant. But they can also make you sick and stay in the environment forever. The EU is discussing its use...
in which the group has won in the previous nine roundup processes. The trial was the first to prove that other chemicals besides the main ingredient glyphosate could cause cancer, Blair said. Bayer announced in a statement that it would appeal. [...] lawsuits related to Roundup have plagued Bayer since the company used the brand in...
but a bureaucratic one. And also a structural one. Because the decision-makers do not come from the environmental policy environment, but from the agricultural policy environment... * PFAS | eternity chemicals | Chemical industry Chemicals conference ends with agreement: Global rules for chemistry for the first time The UN agree on an agreement on the handling of chemicals. This is supposed to cause environmental pollution...
Climate disasters have reached new levels of horror this summer, but there is no adequate tightening of climate policy in response... September 24th PFAS | eternity chemicals | Chemical industry The chemistry is no longer right. More and more chemicals are being produced worldwide. Some harm people and nature. The World Chemicals Conference ICCM5 in Bonn wants to find ways...
Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread
to feed consumers, among other things. The EU approval for glyphosate expired in December 2022, but was temporarily extended pending assessments by EFSA and ECA, the EU chemicals agency. The chairman of the European Parliament's Environment Committee, Pascal Canfin, reacted to the decision on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, and...
Environmentalists accuse the EU authorities of wrongly dismissing evidence of a cancer risk from the pesticide glyphosate. “A new scientific study shows that the EU chemicals agency Echa ignored important findings on carcinogenicity and neglected evidence that glyphosate causes oxidative stress,” the organization said...
in the trade journal “Food Additives & Contaminants: Part A”. Many supposedly environmentally friendly drinking straws made of paper or bamboo contain long-lasting and potentially toxic chemicals, so-called PFAS. The sale of plastic drinking straws has been banned in the EU since July 3, 2021. The group led by Thimo Groffen from the University of Antwerp had drinking straws from 39 in Belgium...
Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years
what you have to go through could be called “political paranoia”... * PFAS | Damage to health | Chemistry for eternity Chemical scandal in Belgium: Truth that makes you sick Chemicals from a 3M factory contaminate the environment in Zwijndrecht, Belgium. Vulnerable residents are preparing a class action lawsuit. [...] The story of PFAS in Zwijndrecht is not...
The number of trucks in long-distance transport can no longer be increased. That would improve the quality of life for many people... * Chemistry | PFAS ban | Eternity Poison A world without Teflon? The European chemicals agency ECHA is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines, electric cars, cooling systems, semiconductors and countless end products. The...
2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events
did not take sufficient account of the fact that there are dangerous factories in the vicinity of the French Gravelines, Saint-Alban and Tricastin nuclear power plants in which, for example, chemicals are produced. On February 11, 2015, the French nuclear regulator ASN approved an extension of the operating time for the Tricastin-2 reactor by another ten years, as well as on June 9, 2015 for...
spoke, emphasized the economics... July 2nd PFAS First US state bans PFAS PFAS were invented at the headquarters of 3M in Minnesota. Now the US state is the first to completely ban the toxic chemicals. The discussion about the so-called “forever chemicals” PFAS has been going on for decades. Individual PFAS (pronounced “peh-barrel”) are already banned in many countries. The...
Renewable energy capacity was 8 percent higher. * Chemical industry | kept quiet | Poison | PFAS Suppressed findings How the chemical industry conceals the toxicity of eternal chemicals Substances that are found in many materials are not degradable and are sometimes highly toxic. Manufacturers have known this for much longer than the public. They find themselves in...
