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

    Lösungen an... 24. April PFAS | Ewigkeitsgifte | Gesundheitsschutz Anhörung zum PFAS-Verbot: Union verlängert ewigen Streit Umwelt- und Verbraucherschützer setzen sich für eine starke Regulierung von Ewigkeitschemikalien ein. Die CDU will ein geplantes Verbot abschwächen. BERLIN taz | Ein geplantes EU-Verbot von PFAS, auch Ewigkeitschemikalien genannt, kommt nicht voran. Empfohlen wird es von...

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

    der Übertragungsnetze benötigt werden und der gestiegene Zinsen, bekommen die ÜN-Netzbetreiber zunehmend Probleme mit der Finanzierung des Netzausbaus. Dazu kommt die Angst vor staatlichen Regulierungseingriffen, welche die erzielbaren Margen deutlich einschränken würden, um die Strompreise nicht wieder steigen zu lassen. Da nimmt es kaum Wunder, dass die Übertragungsnetzbetreiber den Ausbau und...

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

    nahe, dass die Chemikalien Übergewicht und Krebs fördern und verschiedene Organe schädigen. [...] Nach Ansicht des Forschungsteams sind die Ergebnisse ein starkes Argument für eine strengere Regulierung aller PFAS, um die Gesundheit der Menschen zu schützen – einschließlich der neueren PFHxS, die als Alternative für PFOA und PFOS entwickelt wurden. In der EU sind die Chemikalien zwar reguliert,...

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

    wenn sie direkt an Kinder gerichtet ist, zum Beispiel im Umfeld von Kindersendungen. Auch Lebensmittelverband und Werbeindustrie wehren sich gegen die Vorschläge. Sie fürchten eine Überregulierung. Und zweifeln daran, dass Werbeverbote einen positiven Effekt haben * 5. März 1969 (INES 3) Atomfabrik Windscale/Sellafield, GBR Freisetzung von 370 MBq Plutonium im Labor von Gebäude B229. (Kosten ca....

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

    zeigt sich, wie schwierig es ist, PFAS loszuwerden. «Geht doch», möchte man sagen. Und gleichzeitig «Endlich!». Was im Skizirkus in dieser Saison mit am meisten zu reden gab, war eine neue Regulierung. «Fluorwachs», also Skiwachs mit Fluoranteil, ist jetzt verboten. Zumindest im Profi- und Wettkampfbereich sind damit per- und polyfluorierte Alkylverbindungen (PFAS) im Skiwachs nicht mehr...

  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

    “Farmers are aware of more and more requirements and other interventions in their operational processes,” Lindner told our editorial team. “That’s why we have to look at how economic success can be improved overall through less regulation,” said the FDP chairman before his appearance at the central farmers’ demonstration in Berlin next Monday. “If subsidies are eliminated, then...

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

    Platform operators should now take responsibility. There is a broad consensus among the population that climate change is an existential threat to us and that we must take regulations and measures to combat it. But this support is being deliberately undermined. On the one hand, there is the oil and gas lobby, which has been organizing since the 1970s - since it asked for its contribution...

  8. Newsletter XLVI 2023 - November 12th to 18th - News+ Violence as a consequence of climate change: No cool heads

    Could generate $2040 trillion in global sales by XNUMX. But upon closer inspection, many forest projects turn out to be fraudulent, and many certificates turn out to be worthless. “There is no government regulation,” says Lambert Schneider from the Oeko-Institut in the “Climate Laboratory,” describing the biggest problem in an industry in which only voluntary standards apply. There is also a lack of objective and clear criteria as to what...

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

    Newsletter XLIII 2023 October 22nd to 28th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current news + background knowledge The PDF file "Nuclear Power Accidents" contains a number of other incidents from various areas of the nuclear industry. Some of the incidents were never released through official channels, so this information is only available to the public on...

  10. Newsletter XXVI 2023 - June 25 to July 1 - News+ Two tips on how we can further strengthen the far-right AfD

    Mises, an Austrian economist, was a radical. Von Mises, who was not quite as famous as his student Friedrich von Hayek later, was convinced that any form of state regulation could be equated with “socialism.” He detested not only the idea of ​​a minimum wage, but even the concept of antitrust law: regulation to prevent monopolies should only...

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

    But instead of informing the public or eliminating the chemicals in question, internal research results were kept under wraps and legal regulation of these substances was delayed... June 1st France | EDF EPR | Nuclear phase-out canceled in France Politics for the nuclear and agricultural lobby: Macron's miserable ecological balance French President Emmanuel...

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

    Fair 2023. Energy storage by power producers According to Ocean Grazer, the so-called self-developed marine batteries (more precisely, ocean batteries; "Ocean Battery") could both ensure better regulation, for example during local load peaks, and feed in electricity in times when there is little wind. They are to be integrated into offshore wind farms that already exist or are yet to be built... April 27th...

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

    Share of the confederation's total energy needs: Buildings currently account for around 40 percent of consumption and 36 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the EU... * Food Lobby | Regulation From Seco to Nestlé: Around 40 francs per meeting The former Seco director is supposed to be on the Nestlé board of directors. She has lobbied for the company for years. At the end of April...

  14. Newsletter VII 2023 - February 12th to 18th - News+ Buzzword climate neutrality, saviors of the fossil lobby and the talk of alarmism

    Authority on government course Critics doubt the independence of the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority A few days ago, the Japanese Nuclear Regulatory Authority (NRA) approved a new regulatory system and thereby approved an extension of the service life of nuclear reactors to beyond 60 years. [...] When asked about the rushed decision-making process, Shinsuke Yamanaka, who...

  15. Newsletter III 2022 - January 15th to 21st - News+ Advancing the energy transition: The mills of the plain

    at. ** January 15th Energy transition Germany now needs an Agenda 2022, 2025 and 2030 The German energy transition has recently been suffering from declining dynamism, unnecessary complexity and too much regulation. But it still offers immense economic opportunities if politicians act decisively. * France | EDF climate protection pioneer France? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that! - Despite supposedly green...

  16. Newsletter XXVI - June 08th to 13.06.2021th, 08 - News+ June XNUMXth - The last rebellion

    Newsletter XXVI 2021 June 08th to 13th *** 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 Current News+ background knowledge *** June 11th, 2021 - Farmers in North Rhine-Westphalia are roofing berry fruit plantations with Solar system * June 11, 2021 - Compensation the nuclear power plant operator for nuclear phase-out: Bundestag changes nuclear law * June 10, 2021 - Green election program needs concrete steps for...

  17. Newsletter VII - February 09th to 15.02.2021th, 09 - News+ February XNUMXth - Nuclear waste - repository wanted

    in Salzgitter and Bonn. The head of the authority is Wolfram König... Tasks The Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management is the central federal authority for the approval, supervision and regulation in the areas of final and interim storage as well as for the handling and transport of radioactive waste... * Federal company for final disposal The Federal Society for Final Storage mbH (BGE)...

  18. THTR Newsletter No. 144 November 2014

    of the separated uranium. + The Department of Energy's will not be supervised by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, meaning there will be no public oversight and regulation of reprocessing and CASTOR shipments. + The importation of nuclear waste from commercial facilities into the United States is unprecedented. Savannah River Site has a history of nuclear waste...

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