1. Newsletter XVIII 2024 - April 28th to May 4th - News+ Hubris of the West: Three decades of chaos and decline

    Newsletter Some of the events were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

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

    the 2035 target of minus 45 percent was completely removed. In any case, the goals only related to the company's own emissions - not to sales. Environmental associations also repeatedly point out, citing studies and official reports, that the situation has worsened since 2021. According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), consumption...

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

    Sabotage and disinformation are being received, said “ausstrahlt”. [...] Criticism of the cooperation with Rosatom has come in the past from both the federal and state governments as well as from initiatives and environmental associations. Rosatom reports directly to the Kremlin and is said to have been involved in the military occupation of the Ukrainian Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The French company Framatome...

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

    how the breath of democracy grows weaker. I'm glad you're all here and want to breathe new life into it. I hope it's not too late. * CO2 emissions | Avoidance | CCS environmental associations Above-ground dispute over underground CO₂ repositories A thesis paper on CCS technology, on which the environmental organizations WWF and Nabu worked, is met with opposition. The...

  5. Newsletter III 2024 - January 14th to 20th - Current news + Psychological explanations for doing nothing

    Agricultural industry Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) Fake farmers collect EU agricultural subsidies: farmers and farms are not among the top recipients. Beneficiaries include municipalities, financial investors, corporations and environmental associations. It sounds like a platitude: EU agricultural subsidies are for farmers and farm operators. Who else, right? Not even close! There is no one among the top ten recipients in this country...

  6. Newsletter II 2024 - January 7th to 13th - News+ SMR: US developers of mini-nuclear power plants under pressure - class action lawsuit by shareholders against NuScale Power

    this brilliant atomic heritage will not be available for many decades? The above-ground interim storage previously planned for 40 years could now last for over 100 years. Environmental associations are calling for the extended interim storage to be critically examined and not only to examine the risks of an “above-ground life extension” but also terrorism...

  7. Newsletter I 2024 - January 1st to 6th - News+ - The necessary change needs more support

    stop” The planned nuclear waste transports are dangerous and unnecessary, say Kerstin Ciesla and Matthias Eickhoff. A word of power is needed from the very top. taz: Ms. Ciesla, Mr. Eickhoff, environmental associations and anti-nuclear initiatives have been protesting in North Rhine-Westphalia for months against the Castor transports planned this year from Jülich in the Rhineland to Ahaus in Münsterland. Why? Kerstin Ciesla: Because the...

  8. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    The Konrad nuclear waste storage facility in Salzgitter, Lower Saxony, will continue to be built for the time being. Environment Minister Christian Meyer (Greens) announced this today. His ministry temporarily rejected the applications from environmental associations to withdraw, revoke and stop construction of the planning approval decision and the demand to stop further construction work. Meyer explains this with a legal...

  9. Newsletter XLIX 2023 - December 3rd to 9th - News+ The language of autocracy

    Actually reduce subsidies. There is a lot of potential, particularly in the transport sector. But the FDP is slowing down. [...] What the Greens wanted to sell as a success in the spring is also a bitter disappointment for the environmental associations. Of all people, Wissing, whose area of ​​responsibility, the transport sector, is at the bottom of the list when it comes to climate protection - Wissing of all places will be relieved of responsibility...

  10. Newsletter XLVIII 2023 - November 26th to December 2nd - Current News+ Greenwashing at COP28: How corporations lobby against climate goals

    gone. But then there was the ruling of the Constitutional Court. Saving is considered a great virtue in Germany, and the debt brake is the most sacred cow in politics today... * Environmental associations | Climate Protection Act Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court: Court obliges government to take immediate measures against greenhouse gases Germany is not doing enough to reduce harmful greenhouse gases...

  11. Newsletter XLV 2023 - November 5th to 11th - News+ Are Habeck, Pistorius, Baerbock an infernal trio?

    the expansion of attics and the installation of cell phone masts. Further simplifications, for example in the healthcare system and the hydrogen industry, should follow, said Scholz. Criticism from environmental associations Hesse's Prime Minister Boris Rhein (CDU), the chairman of the Prime Minister's Conference (MPK), spoke of a "good move and an important step." Conversion and expansion of apartments will...

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

    Become a companion, in the news worldwide as well as for many people here personally. The traffic light gives free rein to the destruction of the climate, the removal of participation rights for environmental associations and the erosion of asylum and human rights. The racists from the AfD and CDU are becoming louder and stronger. Some people find it difficult to become active or people are too busy...

  13. Newsletter XXXII 2023 - August 6th to 12th - News+ Hiroshima - The asphalt will burn. Chaos will reign

    The ESK considers Würgassen to be “plausible”. [...] It is unclear whether the final repository will even go into operation. It is also completely unclear whether the Konrad final repository will even go into operation. The environmental associations BUND and Nabu have applied for the building permit to be revoked. The criticism: Konrad does not correspond to the state of science and technology, it is an old mine, it has no...

  14. Newsletter XXX 2023 - July 23-29 - News+ Chomsky: What happens when orders from Washington are not followed?

    Newsletter XXX 2023 23 to 29 July *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 Current+ background knowledge Nuclear Power Accidents This PDF file contains a list of known incidents from the various areas of civil and military industry . Some of this information only became public in a roundabout way. As soon as new...

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

    If you are looking to explain the function of a heat pump to the editorial team, how about a first-year student in business administration who would then also take over the editing of Felix Rupprecht's articles?... * Environmental associations | Climate Protection Act | Sectors Environmental associations criticize new climate protection law The government wants to abolish mandatory sector targets for individual economic sectors, the cabinet has...

  16. Newsletter XV 2023 - April 9th ​​to 15th - News+ Traffic light climate, Switzerland as a role model and the better alternative to e-fuels

    The EU Commission wants to include ships and aircraft in the taxonomy and thus label them as sustainable investments. Environmental groups fear that this is the “nail in the coffin” for the credibility of the taxonomy. The last word has not yet been spoken. If only everything were that easy. A few plenary sessions here, a few signatures there, and planes and ships are “green”. That's how it would have...

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

    The first five model procedures are to stop the sale of selected 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. The DUH had already clarified through the European Court of Justice in November last year...

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

    Spokesperson for the citizens' initiative warns against this. BERLIN taz | The energy company RWE's plans to build a liquid natural gas terminal off the coast of the Baltic Sea island of Rügen are causing protests. Environmental associations speak of the largest fossil fuel project in Europe and warn of overcapacity and the dangers for tourism and the environment. It involves four stationary floating LNG terminals with...

  19. Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all

    Although feared, the clarity and conciseness is unexpected.”... *** January 18 Taxonomy | Sustainable investments Climate compatibility of investments: Better than the EU taxonomy The greenwashed observatory, set up by environmental associations, informs investors about the sustainability of investments. BERLIN taz | In response to the EU taxonomy with the controversial...

  20. Newsletter I 2023 - January 1st to 7th - News+ Where Are the Peacemakers?

    become. The climate activists failed in an urgent application against this order on Thursday before the Aachen administrative court, but they want to continue the lawsuit. A broad alliance of environmental associations, climate groups and local initiatives is therefore calling for a large demonstration in the village on January 14th. The activists want to take part in the demonstration despite the current...

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