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Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard
of greenhouse gases: climate sinners pay, please! The rich contribute much more to global warming. How can you make them pay for it? Three proposals for taxes against the climate crisis. According to the Federal Environment Ministry, the average CO2 footprint per capita in Germany is 10,8 tons. This number suggests that emissions are evenly distributed. It is not so. The richest percent...
fewer greenhouse gases were emitted than in the previous year. However, two important sectors, the transport and building sectors, have their legally established CO₂ requirements. Transport and environmental protection associations are therefore accusing the federal government of breaking the law. [...] The transport sector under Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) will have nine million tonnes of CO₂ equivalents more than...
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...
agreed. The aim is to build a hydrogen infrastructure at the Moorburg location and to use parts of the ex-power plant to supply the city based on renewable energies. According to the environmental agency, the first hydrogen should be produced in 2026... * Combustion dispute | Aviation | Liquid hydrocarbons Internal combustion dispute Aviation insists on priority for e-fuel use...
to enforce the demands of the resolution. Even NATO member Turkey has expanded economic relations with Russia since the beginning of the war... * Power outages Ukraine | Environmental damage | Climate damage: Toxic gases, forest fires, oil slicks Greenpeace, in collaboration with Ukrainian...
Startup Cylib is now going one step further: At some points in the recycling process, Cylib has replaced toxic alkalis and acids with water. “This not only makes battery recycling more environmentally friendly, but also more cost-effective,” says co-founder Lilian Schwich... * Japan | Service life extension Japan's nuclear regulator approves service life extension of reactors The Japanese...
Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war
Nuclear and gas as green The objection follows the lawsuit: Greenpeace wants to go to the ECJ in April against the new EU taxonomy rules. They classify gas and nuclear power as climate-friendly. The environmental organization Greenpeace has announced a lawsuit against the classification of gas and nuclear power in the EU as sustainable. In April, Greenpeace will be at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg...
Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk
| Toxic waste Decommissioned aircraft carrier Brazil sinks toxic waste ship Despite protests, Brazil has sunk a dilapidated aircraft carrier full of toxic substances in the Atlantic. Environmentalists speak of a “30.000-ton toxic package.” Despite protests from environmentalists, Brazil has sunk a dilapidated former aircraft carrier in the Atlantic. The six...
Climate protection. As the AFP news agency reports, the public prosecutor's office has been dealing with the accusation of so-called greenwashing since December 2021. The background is a lawsuit from three environmental organizations. They accuse TotalEnergies of promoting climate protection on the one hand, but investing massively in fossil fuels on the other. TotalEnergies wants to...
Newsletter III 2023 - January 15-21 - News+ Climate Scam - Exxon knew it all
Companies around the world are affected. Companies like Netflix, Gucci, Walt Disney and Ben & Jerry's pump billions of dollars into the voluntary CO2 certificates market every year. For the environment, for your own conscience and of course your own brand. The key term is offsetting. That means something like equalization or compensation. The Italian fashion company Gucci, for example...
Newsletter LI 2022 - December 20th to 25th - News+ One UN for all
Silence wide... * Climate protection | greenhouse gas | Agriculture Cattle farming for climate protection? Beware of greenwashing! Various climate and environmental arguments are used today to defend cattle farming. What they all have in common is that they refer to special forms of husbandry that have little to do with today's meat and dairy industry. It has been known for years that...
be communicable. The only problem is: Nobody has a patent recipe yet for getting those in government to protect our livelihoods. And time is running out. The environmental and climate movement has long been asking itself the question, encapsulated by Bertrand Russell, of how humanity can be persuaded to "agree to its own survival." Another problem is that the...
*** December 07th fuel elements Lingen | Nuclear phase-out Production of fuel elements: Ministry for the closure of uranium factories Otherwise the nuclear phase-out would be implausible, writes the environmental department. But a quick closure is not in sight. GÖTTINGEN taz | It is an announcement that has no consequences for the time being, but at least it is an announcement: The Federal Environment Ministry (BMUV) supports...
Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN
and as collateral damage to a renaissance in the use of coal and nuclear power? Or as a year in which the Western democracies put a stop to the brutal mix of nationalism, imperialism and environmental destruction and laid the foundation for climate-friendly energies to make a breakthrough? It is still too early to decide. Still, there is hope that Russia's...
the core was cleaned by pumping an emergency reserve of nitrogen through it and blowing it out through the exhaust chimney. Approximately 1,5 megacuries (55 PBq) of radioactive substances were released into the environment. (INES Level 5) - Nuclear power accidents by country#Russia - - Atom power plantsPlag https://atom power planteplag.fandom.com/de/wiki/Leningrad_(Russia) In 1975, the core of the reactor...
Legacy of nuclear energy Can a nuclear waste repository really defy the forces of nature? The search for a final storage facility for German nuclear waste will take longer than planned. The Federal Environment Ministry explains this with the “high requirements for the selection of the location”. But can this even exist given climate change and extreme weather events? The earth shakes, flash floods...
"It's about committing crimes," said Strobl... * Conservative | hypocrite | Biedermen | WiP Conservative? Hypocrite! They call themselves conservative, but they have failed across the board when it comes to preserving the environment. First they let the climate fall into the well, and now, probably to distract from their own failure, they want to put protesting children in the hole just because...
marched from Kirchheim am Neckar to reactor block 2. It would almost be a usual protest march against nuclear power. Otherwise, the rallies of the Federal Association of Citizens' Environmental Protection Initiatives (BBU) will take place around March 11th around the anniversary of the reactor disaster in Fukushima, Japan. But this year everything is different. Suddenly the one hoped for by opponents of nuclear power...
Newsletter XLIII 2022 - October 28th to 31st - News+ Climate protection: It's not enough
** October 31st Green Minister | Nuclear power plant testing | Continued operation Critical voices ignored?: Green ministers are said to have influenced the nuclear power plant inspection. Economics Minister Habeck and Environment Minister Lemke opposed the continued operation of the last three nuclear power plants early on. There were also arguments for it. [...] Research by “Welt am Sonntag” and “Cicero” suggests that the...
Newsletter XLII 2022 - October 23rd to 27th - News+ The fairy tale with primary energy consumption
In addition, Döschner officially operated as an “energy expert” from 2011 to 2017 and worked in the investigative editorial team of the WDR format “Story and Research” as a reporter with a focus on energy, environment and climate. A journalistic biography tailor-made for current political events and the climate crisis. But Döschner is hardly used anymore and his suggestions are ignored on WDR...
