Environment

The recent CBAM vote provided a good example of a straight up or down vote on a moratorium  on the the European Green Deal. The amendment was rejected with 287 for, 330  against, and 5 abstentions. See the Roll Call vote below. The majority was a traditional progressive alliance of the S&D, most of Renew, … Read more

Today, the European Parliament’s Environment Committee held an exchange of views with the Commission on their progress in developing proposals for CLP and REACH Regulation, and with ECHA on their work on the PFAS Restriction. It was interesting to see the Commission not respond to the concerns raised by MEPs (Arena & Hazekamp) on the … Read more

  The von der Leyen Commission took office on Saturday 1 December 2019. On 11 December 2019, the Commission adopted an ambitious European Green Deal.  Even before the Commission took office, it seemed clear that the von der Leyen Commission would be a Green Commission.  The President’s Political Guidelines made that clear enough. The Green … Read more

A useful update from Kestutis Sadauskas (DG ENV) on the chemical strategy today. The Environment Committee members, who will lead on the revision of CLP and REACH, give a good sense of where the Committee sees things. And, a final, as ever polished review from Bjorn Hansen on ECHA.       Otter ai transcript   … Read more