1. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    Critics fear sabotage and espionage by Russia. Five members of the works council of the fuel element factory and two representatives of the Lingen branch of the Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union (IGBCE) were also in Hanover on Friday. "We want to show that despite all the protests that we are facing, there is also a workforce of 400 people who are fully behind the project...

  2. Newsletter V 2024 - January 28th to February 3rd - Current news + US foreign policy: Profit over peace?

    From associations, companies and economists, complex “network congestion management” will also be necessary in the next few years... * PFAS | eternity poison | Ban PFAS PFAS in ski wax: Fast chemistry that sticks everywhere “Fluorowax” has been banned in several ski competitions since this season. This shows how difficult it is to get rid of PFAS. “It’s okay,” you might say. And at the same time...

  3. Newsletter XLVII 2023 - November 19th to 25th - News+ Spectacular setback for the development of small nuclear reactors in the USA - The dead horse

    "Stopped the disinformation campaigns that have been promoting megabasins as a way to reduce water extraction for years," they noted in a joint statement... * Glyphosate | Chemical industry | Monsanto Bayer sentenced to 1,5 billion dollars in damages Tens of thousands of cases are still open in the USA - now Bayer has suffered another defeat in a glyphosate trial...

  4. Newsletter XL 2023 - October 1st to 7th - Current news + FDP proposal for industrial electricity price relief is spot on

    In order for a claim to protection to be possible at all, the paper believes that a decision should be made before entering the EU and before crossing the border... October 5th Glyphosate | Pesticides | Chemical industry ecotoxicologist on pesticide ban: “Glyphosate is the perfect smokescreen” Dr. Carsten Brühl is an ecotoxicologist at the University of Landau. He has been researching the effects of pesticides for years. At...

  5. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    into the sea that the bay glowed red, as pictures in Greek media showed... * Glyphosate | Monsanto | Pesticide study was missing from the approval application: Bayer reported for glyphosate The chemical company did not submit critical studies to the authorities about the health risks of the pesticide, according to environmental associations. Bayer sees it differently. BERLIN taz | Environmentalists have called the chemical company...

  6. Newsletter XXXVII 2023 - September 10th to 16th - News+ How Germany is ruining the climate with billions in gifts to industry

    The Ministry of Agriculture is critical of renewed approval and describes it as “not justified”. What is glyphosate? Glyphosate was distributed by Monsanto starting in 1974. The US chemical company mixed the organic phosphorus compound with other substances and sold the plant poison as a weed killer under the name Roundup. Many farmers spray their fields with it, all...

  7. Newsletter XXXV 2023 - August 27 to September 2 - News+ Historic victory: Ecuador becomes the first country to say no to oil

    is one of the countries with the highest electricity prices in the world - even when purchasing power is taken into account. But not all sectors suffer equally: large consumers from the chemical or aluminum industries, for example, more than IT companies. Is it only logical to subsidize the price of electricity to just a few cents for precisely those affected, as the Greens...

  8. Newsletter XXXIV 2023 - August 20th to 26th - News+ The sun will shine for another 4,5 billion years

    the only thing left is to fall into the realm of the irrational. One of the zones you have to go through might be called “political paranoia”... * PFAS | Damage to health | Chemistry for eternity Chemical scandal in Belgium: Truth that makes you sick Chemicals from a 3M factory contaminate the environment in Zwijndrecht, Belgium. Vulnerable residents prepare...

  9. Newsletter XXXIII 2023 - August 13th to 19th - News+ Military coup in Niger: Uranium mining and environmental destruction as deeper reasons?

    The number of deep-sea freighters on the seas and the number of trucks in long-distance transport can no longer be increased. That would improve the quality of life for many people... * Chemistry | PFAS ban | Eternity Poison A world without Teflon? The European chemicals agency ECHA is considering sweeping restrictions on fluorinated chemicals used in jet engines,...

  10. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    3D printed concrete therefore often causes more greenhouse gases than conventional concrete. “The critics of 3D printing are currently right,” says Thorsten Stengel, Professor of Building Materials and Construction Chemistry at Munich University of Applied Sciences. "Research is definitely moving in the direction of using fewer binders." An example of this is the Texas start-up Hive3D. It has with its partners...

  11. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    Eternity chemicals that found their way into drinking water. The case surrounding contaminated drinking water caused by so-called forever chemicals is spreading widely in the USA. After the chemical companies DuPont, Chemours and Corteva had already agreed to pay a combined fine of 1,2 billion dollars, the consumer goods and medical technology manufacturer 3M also has to pay a large sum of...

  12. Newsletter XXII 2023 - May 28th to June 3rd - News+ Political style in Germany Please, strengthen the AfD

    has repressed. According to the new IEA report, wholesale electricity prices in Europe would have been 2022 percent higher in 8 without the additional renewable energy capacity. * Chemical industry | kept quiet | Poison | PFAS Suppressed Findings How the chemical industry conceals the toxicity of eternal chemicals Substances found in many materials are not...

  13. Newsletter XX 2023 - May 14th to 20th - News+ Heat waves hit poor neighborhoods particularly hard

    Today's version has a problem: its negative pole. “Almost all technical and electrochemical advances took place at the cathode, the positive pole,” says Dirk-Uwe-Sauer, professor of electrochemistry at RWTH in Aachen. “The negative pole, the anode, on the other hand, still looks almost the same as it did 30 years ago.” It is made of graphite, a special structure made of carbon... * Climate change |...

  14. Newsletter XVII 2023 - April 23rd to 29th - News+ Faulty SPD, self-deception at 1,5 degrees and war as a climate destroyer

    Uranium 235 can be operated, as stated in a press release from the ministry. In the next step, the approval process for the new fuel will be initiated... * Chemical industry | Glyphosate Farewell at Bayer's Annual General Meeting The man behind the Monsanto deal is leaving. After seven years as CEO and 35 years at Bayer, Werner Baumann is leaving in a month. Be...

  15. Newsletter XVI 2023 - April 16th to 22nd - News+ Poisons for eternity - Uranium and its radioactive relatives

    Economy (BVMW), Markus Jerger, Germany is “one of the very few nations in the world that are getting out, while other countries are investing massively in nuclear power... * Chemical industry | EU Commission | PFAS ban EU wants to ban PFAS "Perpetual chemicals are suspected of being carcinogenic" Although some of them are harmful to health, they are found in many...

  16. Newsletter XIV 2023 - April 2-8 - News+ Wars and School Massacres: The Cancer of Dehumanization

    Stop using products with particularly toxic and environmentally harmful active ingredients. The federal government has so far prevented German environmental associations from judicially reviewing the approval of pesticides to protect chemical companies. As early as November last year, the DUH had the European Court of Justice clarify that environmental associations in Germany...

  17. Newsletter XIII 2023 - March 26 to April 1 - News+ What uranium ammunition would do to Ukraine

    the largest amounts of radioactive waste for the Konrad mine in Salzgitter... * Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Lithium | Batteries Recycling KIT: Lithium recycling from batteries without a lot of chemicals and energy. Recycling batteries has so far been a somewhat difficult process. However, that doesn't have to be the case, as researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have now shown...

  18. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    Opportunity to use existing resources, also because costs have "fallen extremely" says Qadir - from around five dollars per cubic meter in 2000 to an average of 50 cents today... * Chemical Industry | Production ban | PFAS | PFOA Ban on all PFAS plastics The authorities never want to fall for this industry trick again. The ban on PFAS plastics is...

  19. Newsletter X 2023 - March 5th to 11th - News+ Dangerous toxins: Which products contain PFAS

    Separate processes (PUREX) from each other. Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. So much for the theory... *** Current news+ background knowledge *** Current news+ ** Chemical industry | PFAS | Eternity Poison | polyfluorinated alkyl compounds Dangerous toxins: which products contain PFAS PFAS are found in jackets, pans and pizza boxes. The industrial chemicals...

  20. Newsletter VIII 2023 - February 19th to 25th - News+ Mönch von Lützerath: Sympathetic figures of the climate movement

    “The lights will go out in Germany,” is what the nuclear-fossil cliques are threatening today. Times change, but the perfectly organized and always effective fear campaigns remain... * Chemie Lobby | Refrigerant | Propane lobby fight How much poison does the heat pump need? The heat pump is considered an important lever against climate change and dependence on gas imports. But in many devices...

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