1. Newsletter XVII 2024 - April 21st to 27th - News+ Reform of the Climate Protection Act: One step forward, two steps back

    April 24 PFAS | Eternity Poisons | Health protection Hearing on the PFAS ban: Union extends eternal dispute Environmental and consumer advocates are calling for strong regulation of eternal chemicals. The CDU wants to weaken a planned ban. BERLIN taz | A planned EU ban on PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, is not making progress. It is recommended by the European...

  2. Newsletter XV 2024 - April 7th to 13th - News+ Shell pleads not guilty

    for democracy or against anti-Semitism is praised and demanded, but not actively promoted." * PFAS | Limit | Drinking water Burden on the environment Waters around the world are so heavily contaminated with perennial chemicals that water samples worldwide often exceed guideline values ​​due to high PFAS concentrations. The long-lasting, sometimes toxic substances are now more strictly regulated in the USA. Not...

  3. Newsletter XI 2024 - March 10th to 16th - News+ There is every reason to be afraid of the AfD

    renewable energies and the development and use of CO2-free processes. In addition, the chemical company is planning, among other things, to build a solar park... * PFAS | Forever chemicals PFAS chemicals: Almost everyone is contaminated “Forever chemicals” are omnipresent and harm the cardiovascular system Urgent suspicion: Researchers have proven that so-called...

  4. Newsletter XLIV 2023 - October 29th to November 4th - News+ Uranium exports from Lingen to Russia violate EU law - study by the Greens justifies the possibility of a ban

    over. You should know these terms. Overview: Abraham Accords Occupied Territories Fatah Gaza Strip Golan Heights Hamas and much more. *PFAS | Chemical industry | Eternal poison Fight against the eternal chemicals PFAS are water and dirt repellent, acid resistant, pressure and heat resistant. But they can also make you sick and stay in the environment forever. The EU is discussing its use...

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

    but a bureaucratic one. And also a structural one. Because the decision-makers do not come from the environmental policy environment, but from the agricultural policy environment... * PFAS | eternity chemicals | Chemical industry Chemicals conference ends with agreement: Global rules for chemistry for the first time The UN agree on an agreement on the handling of chemicals. This is supposed to cause environmental pollution...

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

    Climate disasters have reached new levels of horror this summer, but there is no adequate tightening of climate policy in response... September 24th PFAS | eternity chemicals | Chemical industry The chemistry is no longer right. More and more chemicals are being produced worldwide. Some harm people and nature. The World Chemicals Conference ICCM5 in Bonn wants to...

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

    Disadvantages: PFAS cannot or only degrade extremely slowly under environmental conditions. Once they enter nature, they remain there practically permanently, which is why they are also called “perpetual chemicals”. They can also accumulate in human and animal bodies - with potentially harmful consequences. [...] How long the problem of PFAS has been in the...

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

    be. In addition, there is a significantly longer service life... * Chemical Industry | PFAS | eternity poison | Fertility Health politicians on chemicals: “It's high time for regulation” Perpetual chemicals are unhealthy, now a ban on the so-called PFAS is pending. Politician and doctor Armin Grau explains why it is urgent. [...] wochentaz: How clear is it now that these...

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

    paradise is deceiving. Because the water is contaminated with PFAS. The substances hardly break down in nature and are considered potentially carcinogenic, which is why they are colloquially called “forever chemicals” or “poison of the century”. [...] The environmental policy spokesman for the Green parliamentary group, Jan-Niclas Gesenhues, is therefore calling for a fund financed by industry...

  10. Newsletter XI 2023 - March 12th to 18th - News+ 12 years after the nuclear disaster in Fukushima – What have we learned from it?

    Newsletter Some of this information was only made public under the most difficult conditions. As new information emerges, this...

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

    can cause damage to the body. PFAS (pronounced: Pifas) include more than 10.000 substances. They do not occur naturally and are extremely long-lasting because they are hardly degradable. This is why they are also referred to as “forever chemicals”. The substances can be found everywhere – in the air, in drinking water and in agricultural soil around the globe. They can also be found in more than 1.500 locations, including 300 hotspots...

  12. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    Newsletter IX 2023 February 26th to March 4th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 News+ Background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of accidents and releases of radioactivity. Some of this information was only made public under the most difficult conditions. As new information emerges,...

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

    Dirt-repellent alkyl substances have already spread all over the world and are accumulating more and more because they are practically indestructible. It is not for nothing that they are also called “forever chemicals”. They have even been found in Antarctica, in rainwater, breast milk and in alarmingly high doses in the blood of children... Where PFAS are polluting Germany everywhere -...

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