On the 60th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the book that helped trigger the modern environmental movement, the most harmful pesticide contamination is higher than ever. A new PAN Europe report reveals a 100% failure rate of an EU law to ban the most harmful pesticides as officials follow rules created by industry.
Autumn fruit is highly contaminated with the most hazardous category of pesticides, the latest government data shows.
Thousands of LGBTQI activists and allies took to the streets of Belgrade for the EuroPride 2022 March on September 17, 2022, in the face of a police ban that was withdrawn at the eleventh hour and threats from right-wing Christian protesters.
Greens/EFA MEPs write to express their views on the European Commission’s plan to introduce a separate legislation for genetically modified (GM) plants produced by certain “new genomic techniques”. Greens/EFA oppose the introduction of separate legislation for products of new genetic modification (GM) techniques such as targeted mutagenesis and cisgenesis.
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The European Parliament voted on Wednesday to back the proposal to label natural gas and nuclear energy as "green" despite strong opposition from many lawmakers and environmentalists decrying the plan as "greenwashing".