Newsletters
April 28, 2026
New and serious cracks have appeared in the Omnibus plan to weaken the EU pesticide law. An assessment by researchers from Wageningen and Leiden universities shows that the proposal will complicate an...
March 24, 2026
The chemical farming system is at a dead end. The EU proposal to allow unlimited approvals and more exceptions for very toxic pesticides adds to the problem. We need better protection of our health, w...
February 2, 2026
Pesticides are a hot topic. The EU Commission is trying to please the chemical industry by weakening the protection of our health and the environment. Thanks to many reactions, they retreated from the...
December 12, 2025
The pesticide law is under attack. The EU Commission is currently discussing measures to deregulate pesticides. They have not decided on the proposal, so send them a message with our easy tool. See be...
November 17, 2025
Bayer has officially entered our court case against the renewal of glyphosate. We need your support to stand up to this chemical giant. A coalition of 139 civil society, scientific, water, and farming...
October 8, 2025
Many activities this month. We exposed industry tactics to downplay the toxicity of ‘forever chemical’ TFA, omnipresent in our water. The EU reached a deal on water pollution, but with extreme delay i...
September 2, 2025
During the summer, we took the first legal step to urge the EU Commission to act on PFAS pesticides. Denmark made a good first step by banning 23 PFAS pesticide products because they pollute groundwat...
July 8, 2025
Many new developments in the pesticide field this month. New, groundbreaking research links Glyphosate to cancer. Biodiversity is in strong decline, so we need good indicators to achieve effective pro...
June 10, 2025
A lot is happening on the pesticide issue. The number of food products with pesticide cocktails went up. The SCoPAFF committee discussed a possible ban on TFA-generating PFAS pesticides. EU Member Sta...
May 10, 2025
We found TFA contamination in wine across ten wine-producing EU countries. Organisations from across the globe call on Bayer shareholders to end their attempts to undermine laws and regulations that p...