Chemicals

Toxic Trains Dossier

This dossier is the result of a five months-long collaboration of five European journalists. Together, they investigated the transportation of ammonia via rail, in Belgium, ...
Chemicals

How the chemical industry doctored a new EU approval of a contested pesticide

There is growing evidence that glyphosate, the world’s most widely used weedkiller, carries serious risks for human health and the environment. Even so, in December ...
Chemicals

Polluting pfas factory Chemours did not pay profit tax thanks to ‘cynical construction’

US chemicals multinational Chemours in Dordrecht (the Netherlands) makes hundreds of millions in profits and is polluting the environment with toxic substances at the same ...
Chemicals

How a Dutch university assists the agricultural lobby in gaining approval for pesticides

The agrochemical industry is using Wageningen University in agriculture to set its own rules for the approval of pesticides and genetic technology. This is done ...