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The EU strikes a landmark agreement to prevent plastic pellet pollution across land and sea

At midnight today (9 April), the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission reached agreement on a long-awaited EU regulation to prevent plastic pellet losses in the environment, a major source of microplastics pollution. The decision came in the wake of yet another disastrous pellet spill in European waters off the English coast due […]

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EIA and 245 other global groups join forces to urge: ‘Hands off the EU Deforestation Regulation!’

EIA has joined with more than 245 civil society organisations from at least 42 countries to call on the European Parliament and national EU governments to reject the European Commission’s bid to stall a major forests protection law. The Commission is proposing a delay of 12 months to legally applying the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR). […]