1. Newsletter XLIII 2023 - October 22nd to 28th - News+ Municipal utilities are leaving the Future Gas lobby association

    is lashed. Migration is often viewed as a new phenomenon that needs to be combated, but migratory movements are long-standing, traditional and situationally consistent reactions in the development of human settlement on earth. The origin of humanity probably lies in Africa. Friedemann Schrenk from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main...

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

    Transport will not achieve its sector target for 2030. How things are built today is crucial for the climate goals and therefore for the future of future generations. As a reminder: In 2021, the Federal Constitutional Court warned politicians to pursue climate goals with more ambition so as not to leave young people with an insoluble burden... * Election campaign | stop | Victims Was there an attack on...

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

    Emission levels significantly exceeded. The law was tightened a little in the summer of 2021, shortly before the last federal election, in order to comply with a ruling by the Federal Constitutional Court. But the current Chancellor, who at the time passed both the original law and the amendments together with the Union under Angela Merkel, feels that way...

  4. Newsletter XXXVIII 2023 - September 17th to 23rd - News+ A future that I dread

    should be protected, what measures are necessary and how exactly it can be managed... * Brazil | Indigenous | Agricultural lobby Historic success for indigenous people: Supreme Court in Brazil overturns controversial land law Brazil's Supreme Court has strengthened the rights of indigenous people to their traditional land with a clear majority - a defeat for the...

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

    of misleading. California filed suit against ExxonMobil, Shell, BP, ConocoPhilips and Chevron, as well as the American Petroleum Institute, an industry association, according to court documents. The state accuses them of “actively spreading false information” about the risks associated with the use of fossil fuels. »More than 50 years...

  6. Newsletter XXXVI 2023 - September 3rd to 9th - News+ Scientist predicts brutal “population correction” later this century

    Anti-nuclear activist successfully sues: Wrongfully under surveillance Cécile Lecomte was wrongly monitored by the federal police and listed in a search system. This was decided by the Hanover Administrative Court. HAMBURG taz | The Lüneburg anti-nuclear activist Cécile Lecomte has successfully sued against the search and covert surveillance by the federal police. The federal police had her...

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

    Under the presidency of Ursula von der Leyen, the European Commission has officially made climate policy its top priority. But at the end of August, the first phase of one of three lawsuits against the European Commission, targeting a key piece of European Green Deal legislation, was concluded at the European Court in Luxembourg. These lawsuits were...

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

    A small proportion of the radiation can be traced back to the above-ground nuclear weapons tests of the 1950s and 1960s... * Climate catastrophe | Glaciers are melting in Peru | RWE Group Corporations in court Floods, heavy rain and record heat. Who should pay for the damage? A growing number of plaintiffs are demanding that corporations share in the costs of the climate catastrophe - including...

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

    economic power - also expanded through profits made from Russian gas deals - to influence politics and legislation... July 27 Energy Transition | lawsuits | Arbitration tribunals | Federal Court of Justice BGH declares private arbitration proceedings inadmissible. Disputes between investors and states within the European Union must necessarily be brought before state courts...

  10. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    Republicans are prominent politicians in the state - like the party's former deputy leader, Meshawn Maddock... * War of Aggression | Politics and media | double standard Baerbock: Putin on trial (but not the Western mass murderers) The German Foreign Minister is recognized for her speech to the UN Security Council. She demands that wars of aggression should no longer go unpunished. Seriously?...

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

    When the arms industry realized the promise of the Eastern European markets, the desire to beat swords into plowshares was over... *Last Generation | Freedom of the press | District court investigators probably listened in on conversations between the media and climate activists. According to a report, Bavarian authorities listened in on journalists' conversations with the Last Generation. It was monitored...

  12. Newsletter XXIV 2023 - June 11th to 17th - News+ How the West is losing the Global South

    of nuclear weapons in February 1943, a corresponding institute for nuclear technology (today: All-Russian Research Institute for Experimental Physics, VNIIEF) was set up shortly after the end of the Second World War. Sarov was chosen as the location because, on the one hand, it was remote and shielded by dense forests, but on the other hand, it already had a railway connection. In nuclear technology...

  13. Newsletter XXIII 2023 - June 4th to 10th - News+ Politics with poison, hate speech and propaganda

    get elected Prime Minister in Thuringia with AfD votes. And all parties are responsible for the growing social inequality... * Brazil's indigenous population Supreme Court decides Indigenous rights in Brazil under attack In order for the agroindustry to increase its acreage more easily, the conservative majority in the Brazilian parliament wants to protect the rights of...

  14. Newsletter XXI 2023 - 21 to 27 May - News+ World Biodiversity Day: Will the plan to restore Europe's biodiversity fail?

    Respondents in May were certain that too much energy was still being wasted in Germany... * Japan | Lawsuit dismissed | Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant restart in February 2024 Residents fail in court with lawsuit against the restart of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant The district court in Sendai has dismissed a lawsuit by residents of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant challenging the restart of the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant...

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

    this year. This means that for economic reasons you cannot access the electricity from the old systems. Nobody will provide it for the warmth."... May 19th Slovakia Slovakia: Court acquits millionaire after murder of journalist Bratislava. More than five years after the double murder of a Slovakian investigative journalist and his fiancé, the millionaire Marian...

  16. Newsletter XIX 2023 - May 7-13 - News+ Is the West turning Ukraine into a nuclear battlefield?

    listed three places in the region where groundwater reserves are below average and are continuing to decline... * Nigeria | crude oil | Shell oil spill in Nigeria Court dismisses lawsuit against Shell Twelve years after the devastating oil spill off the coast of Nigeria, it is now clear: Shell can no longer be held responsible for the environmental disaster. The case is...

  17. Newsletter XVIII 2023 - April 30 to May 6 - News+ Everything green? Energy Colonialism through Hydrogen Cooperation

    In an interview with netzpolitik.org, the Italian lawyer explains why he is suing his former employer and what consequences the two judgments he fought for before the European Court had... * Energy transition | Citizen energy | Energy Sharing Berlin Energy Days on Energy Sharing Sharing the electricity from the school's solar roof Even when it comes to traffic lights, energy sharing remains the stepchild...

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

    wanted to leave. Accordingly, April 15, 2023 was no reason to pause or to look back critically and self-critically on sixty years of commercial nuclear energy. What have we done, why did it happen like this? Why did it take so long for consequences to be drawn? What could have been done differently and better? If only a fraction of government subsidies go to...

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

    mit besonders giftigen und umweltschädlichen Wirkstoffen zu stoppen. Bislang hindert die Bundesregierung deutsche Umweltverbände daran, die Zulassung von Pestiziden zum Schutz der Chemiekonzerne gerichtlich zu überprüfen. Bereits im November vergangenen Jahres hatte die DUH durch den Europäischen Gerichtshof klären lassen, dass Umweltverbände in Deutschland basierend auf der Aarhus-Konvention...

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

    US state allows oil companies to be punished if they make excessive profits. The decision as to whether individual companies need to be sanctioned or not will be taken over by a newly established state control agency that will continuously monitor developments on the oil markets and also have the authority to obtain internal data on the companies' pricing...

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