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From the Communications 4/ 2024

 

• Air quality: Council gives final green light to strengthen standards in the EU
• Less air pollution – fewer children with lung diseases
• Urban wastewater: Council adopts new rules for more efficient treatment
• High PFAS level found in Muskegon Lake foam
• University of Southern California (USC) study finds link between PFAS, kidney function and gut health
• The European Commission publishes the entry on the restriction of the use of PFHxA and PFHxA-related substances
• Chancellor Scholz does not want to ban PFAS_Eternity chemicals
• BUND petition to Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach on PFAS restriction launched
• Science article on neurotoxic mixture effects of environmental chemicals
• Drinking water contamination by chlorothalonil
• Protection against hormone-damaging substances still inadequate
• JHM article: Screening the release of chemicals and microplastic particles from various plastic consumer products
• Comment on the UN Plastics Summit in Busan: Less plastic – or more?
• Tire wear threatens freshwater
• EuChemS-DCE survey on representation of Environmental Chemistry in programs of higher education
• Anja Ramsperger receives the Bavarian Culture Prize

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