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State Secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry Jochen Flasbarth is calling for greater international effort to improve the protection of man and the environment against chemicals. "The impact of hazardous chemicals on the environment and health does not stop at national borders. The international community must there do all it takes to increase the safety of chemical production and use worldw... read more

Support from the Federal Environment Agency read more

Whether it is car sharing or shared housing – lending, exchange or shared usage is in fashion. read more

Significantly more court decisions taken on exports of waste to Africa and Eastern Europe read more

The transport sector is the only sector which has failed to reduce its emissions since 1990 read more

More than half of the registration dossiers governed by the European REACH Regulation are not compliant with at least one of the seven screened data requirements, for example information on mutagenicity. These are the conclusions of a study carried out by the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on behalf of the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). read more

New interactive map shows old pollutant loads read more

Heat waves raise risk of death in heart patients by up to 15 percent read more