Leonie Cater

Brussels

Chemicals & pollution reporter @POLITICOEurope ~ one third of our Sustainability Insights newsletter ~ [email protected] 🇩🇲🇬🇩

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Articles

Dutch warned not to eat homegrown eggs over forever chemicals fears

1 week ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater

RIVM is an agency of the Dutch Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, which provides independent research and advice to the government. People in the Netherlands "already ingest a lot of PFAS through other foods and partly through drinking water," said the agency in a press release. By no longer eating backyard eggs, a "much higher PFAS intake can be avoided."Commercial eggs from a shop or from the market still can be eaten.
Italy, Spain back France’s plan to rescue EU chemicals industry

1 month ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater

Seven European Union countries including Italy and Spain have joined France in calling for a “critical chemicals act” to protect Europe’s struggling chemicals sector.
Want to breathe Europe’s cleanest air? Move to Estonia.

1 month ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater |Giovanna Coi

Barely a dozen countries in the world have air deemed safe to breathe — and just one of them is in the European Union. Time to layer up and move to Estonia. The Northern European country is the only nation in the bloc with levels of air pollution considered safe under World Health Organization guidelines, a new report by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir finds.
Europe likely to miss most green targets for 2030

2 months ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater |Giovanna Coi

The European Union is likely to miss most of the 2030 green targets it set itself in a bid to become the world's first climate-neutral continent by midcentury, a new report by the European Environment Agency warns. The report — which comes as escalating trade and geopolitical tensions divert Brussels' attention away from environmental policy — examines 28 key targets under the Green Deal, from greenhouse gas emissions and carbon sequestration to recycling targets and nature restoration.
E&E News: France bans ‘forever chemicals’ in consumer products, with a catch

2 months ago | subscriber.politicopro.com | Leonie Cater

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France pitches plan to halt decline of EU chemical industry

2 months ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater

Europe's mighty chemicals industry is in decline — but France is pitching a plan to get it back on track. Once one of the jewels of European manufacturing, the chemicals' sector has been plunged into a deep malaise over recent years, at least in part because of a surge in energy costs. The crisis reached fever pitch when even German heavyweight BASF said last year that it would be making a multibillion investment in China, as it had found business tough in its home market.
Europe : le cordon sanitaire avec l’extrême droite bientôt remis en cause pour s’en prendre au Pacte vert ?

2 months ago | politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Marianne Gros |Zia Weise |Leonie Cater |Louise Guillot

Le destin de la mission historique de l’Europe en matière de climat et celui de son cordon sanitaire contre l’extrême droite sont désormais liés.
Inside the divided coalition coming for the Green Deal

2 months ago | politico.eu | Karl Mathiesen |Marianne Gros |Zia Weise |Leonie Cater |Louise Guillot

The fate of Europe’s historic climate mission and its political firewall against the far right are now intertwined. Europe’s attempts to reignite its fading industries have created a motley but energetic crew of business interests, centrist political leaders and far-right crusaders — all of whom want to reset the EU’s Green Deal, a package of laws aimed at zeroing out greenhouse gases and living in harmony with nature.
Europe’s rivers are awash with mercury and other pollutants, Brussels warns

2 months ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater

Mercury and other toxic chemicals are polluting the majority of waterways in Europe, contributing to a wider water quality crisis that requires urgent action, the European Commission has warned. In a set of reports released Tuesday that will feed into a new bloc-wide water resilience strategy, the European Union’s executive branch warned the continent’s rivers, lakes and streams are in a “highly critical” state, and called on member countries to address the problem.
How a Catalan beach became a symbol of Europe’s plastic problem

2 months ago | politico.eu | Leonie Cater

TARRAGONA, Spain — European lawmakers this week started talks on how to solve an insidious facet of the plastic pollution crisis — one that's a brute reality for the Catalan province of Tarragona. The seaside community on Spain's Costa Dorada has become an emblem for the plastic pellet pollution crisis. Housing one of the largest petrochemical clusters in southern Europe, Tarragona's beaches are dotted with the small plastic beads that resemble grains of Arborio rice.