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

    decided. Seven environmental groups sued, supported by over 17.000 Dutch citizens as co-plaintiffs. “The people against Shell,” was the motto of the trial. The renowned environmental lawyer Remo Klinger called the first verdict in SPIEGEL “historic”. A cheer went through the climate protection scene. At Shell, however, the shock was deep: the company fired...

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    600 million euros signed with a branch of the Russian nuclear company Rosatom to have the uranium from used fuel elements re-enriched in Seversk. This is a complex process that leaves behind large amounts of radioactive waste. This contract will be respected, explained Jean-Michel Quilichini, director of the nuclear division at EDF. He sees no reason to...

  3. Newsletter XII 2024 - March 17th to 23rd - News+ Industry should stop whining about Germany

    rejected. But everything took hours. And so she was successful: the final verdict could not be made now and the verdict was postponed. [...] Because the AfD knows very well how the process will most likely end: the classification will also be confirmed again in court. That's why she argued so little in terms of content, but rather with all sorts of tricks...

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

    one probably also looks at the morally flattering traditional self-image with verve. In 1960, Max Horkheimer wrote in his criticism of the official state trial planned by Israel against Adolf Eichmann: The desire to do something to Eichmann because of his atrocities was “too poor” for Israel. He highlights the historical suffering of the Jewish people, but adds the insight: “The...

  5. Newsletter X 2024 - March 3rd to 9th - News+ More courage would be good

    Bayer announces glyphosate alternative For years, the Bayer Group's weed killer glyphosate has been criticized as being harmful to health - and there are many lawsuits, especially in the USA. The company is now working on an alternative. The controversial weed killer glyphosate has become a lengthy and, above all, expensive problem for the pharmaceutical company Bayer, especially in the USA...

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

    There are signs of continued control by the federal government and no expropriation of the Russian majority owner. Rosneft-Russia has explained that it wants to sell its shares and complete the process during another escrow extension, the Ministry of Economy said. “We will examine this, including further legal safeguards.” [...] After...

  7. Newsletter VIII 2024 - February 18th to 24th - News+ On the death of the Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny

    Researchers look for rock layers with specific geochemical properties that dissolve the gas and convert it into a carbonate mineral through so-called “in-situ mineralization”. However, in nature this process takes seven to ten years – too long. Groundbreaking discovery: Microbes can convert CO₂ into rock A discovery at the Sanford Underground Research Facility could...

  8. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    a climate tariff. ntv.de: Do you shrug your shoulders when you read about layoffs at Miele or ZF Friedrichshafen? Reint Gropp: No. This is part of a larger, very long-lasting process that is being accelerated by the climate goals. Especially in Europe and Germany. We are undergoing a structural change in which there cannot only be winners. We will create jobs in...

  9. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Expect high claims for damages in the USA. The company suffered a setback in its legal defense. The agricultural and pharmaceutical company Bayer has lost before an appeals court in the USA in connection with a lawsuit over a weed killer. The Eleventh Court of Appeal ruled that the Leverkusen company was not immune from lawsuits over the glyphosate-containing...

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

    Thuringia elected a new state parliament. In surveys, the AfD is clearly in the lead there. A red-red-green coalition currently governs there under Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow (The Left). * Process | Verdict | Cum-ex verdict in the Cum-ex proceedings Top lawyer Johannemann should be sentenced to three and a half years in prison In the Cum-ex scandal, the verdict against the former Freshfields lawyer Ulf Johannemann...

  11. Newsletter IV 2024 - January 21st to 27th - Current news + AfD ban: Off to Karlsruhe?

    A US court sees a connection between cancer and the use of Monsanto's weed killer containing glyphosate. The company is considering an appeal. The Bayer Group suffered another defeat in the glyphosate trials in the USA. A jury in Philadelphia sentenced the Bayer subsidiary Monsanto to a felony for the weed killer Roundup...

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

    Livermore Lab released approximately 650.000 curies (23.700 TBq) of tritium into the air from the chimneys of the tritium facility (Building 331). Note: One curie corresponds to 37 billion radioactive decay processes per second, in Becquerels 37 GBq. After the 1965 accident, not much data is available on wind patterns, precipitation, etc., but after the 1970 accident, scientists at the...

  13. Newsletter LII 2023 - December 24th to 31st - News+ Nuclear power fantasy fails due to desolate industry

    helped pharmaceutical companies like Purdue Pharma create misleading marketing campaigns and boost sales of painkillers... * United States | Trumpl | Misinformation Trial against Trump Misinformation generated: Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen admits in court to incorrect use of AI The new AI programs have immense capabilities - the nature of their...

  14. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    agreed requirements are met. There are now sufficient guarantees that the independence of the judiciary in Hungary will be strengthened. However, today's decision is not the end of the process. We will continue to monitor the situation closely and react early if there are any setbacks... * Climate change | Climate conference | COP COP28 ends without a clear end to coal, oil...

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

    MVM Paksi Atomerömű Zrt, stated that the announcement of the extension plan has been submitted to the EU in accordance with Euratom regulations and "this marks the beginning of the approximately ten-year process" to extend the operating license for another 20 years. The four existing units in Paks are VVER-440 reactors that were in operation between 1982 and 1987...

  16. THTR Circular No. 156, December 2023

    Working and accommodation conditions will be the result and civil society and the trade unions, as essential actors of these changes, will not be involved in the decision-making processes. It is unclear how several thousand local skilled workers without existing training positions can be qualified in such a short time in this poorly populated country. At this...

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

    including the EU, want to address the entire life cycle of plastic products, including bans and restrictions on production quantities. Why do individual states manage to stop this process? The issue of plastic waste was discussed for the first time at the UN level. In terms of the procedures, you are roughly where you were in the climate negotiations before Paris, there is still the...

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

    der Freitag: Ms. Billerbeck, what motivated you to deal with the actions of your great-uncle so many years later? Maite Billerbeck: During a long internal process, I became aware that it was necessary to come to terms with one's own history. We actually can't get past it if we get out of the cycle of transgenerational transmission and the burden of guilt...

  19. 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

    - Agriculture as a means to combat climate change The natural weathering of rocks removes CO₂ from the atmosphere. Crushed rock that is distributed on arable land can significantly speed up this process. Davis (USA). According to data from the American Meteorological Society (AMS), the Earth's atmosphere currently has the highest CO₂ concentration in a million years. The...

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

    “responsible for final disposal”. The statement states, among other things: "Since the fuel balls have to be conditioned and repackaged before final storage, further transports and possibly return transports to Jülich are required for this process." This is also because there are no so-called "hot" in the Ahaus interim storage facility Cells” and this work only in...

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