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Air quality: Standards needed for all air pollutants with health impacts, say MEPs

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - March 4, 2021

Environment Committee MEPs voted to request better enforcement of current air quality standards and to call for new standards for non-regulated pollutants. On Thursday, the...

Luxury cruise giant emits 10 times more air pollution than all of Europe’s cars – study

EFTA Theodoros Benakis - June 5, 2019

Carnival Corporation, the world’s largest luxury cruise operator, emitted nearly 10 times more sulphur oxide (SOX) around European coasts than did all 260 million...

EC documents reveal a fight to cripple important European pesticide protections

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - May 9, 2019

The haul of over 600 documents was obtained after a two year legal battle won by the Pesticide Action Network Europe (PAN). They show...

Could switching between summer and winter time end in 2021?

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - March 4, 2019

Proposals to end biannual clock changes from 2021 were backed by the Transport and Tourism Committee on Monday. The Transport Committee proposes that the clock...

S&Ds: the approval of the EU pesticides report is just the beginning

EU INSTITUTIONS Theodoros Benakis - January 17, 2019

The final PEST report voted yesterday in plenary by an overwhelming majority calls on the European institutions and member states to make the authorisation...

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