1. Newsletter XVI 2024 - April 14th to 20th - News+ Poland: The Tusk government is also relying on nuclear energy

    The energy supplier Entega, which received CO2 credits from six unsuitable forest protection projects, told Correctiv that it was now questioning the green gas concept. The German Environmental Aid (DUH) has called on 15 gas suppliers to end their consumer-deceptive advertising for “climate-neutral” natural gas... April 15th Climate Protection Act | Speed ​​limit | Solar package reform of the climate protection law:...

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

    Nanograms per liter recommends, this limit in Canada is 30 ng/l. In the USA the limits were massively tightened a few years ago... * Methane | Opencast lignite mining Study by Umwelthilfe Satellite images from the Hambach opencast mine show dangerous methane emissions Berlin · The greenhouse gas methane has around 80 times as much effect on global warming as CO2. With the help of...

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

    The Kremlin is financing the war against Ukraine, say NGOs. They are calling for stricter sanctions. BERLIN taz | German Environmental Aid (DUH) and 280 other NGOs are calling for a stop to the import of Russian liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the EU in an open letter to the G7 states and the European Union. On the two-year anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, organizations complain...

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

    and obesity, high blood pressure, sugar and lipid metabolism disorders... * Lawsuit | Glyphosate | Biodiversity Environmentalists threaten to sue: Lawyers take action against glyphosate The German Environmental Aid and the Aurelia Foundation are appealing against the new approval of glyphosate. The pesticide harms biodiversity. BERLIN dpa | The Aurelia Foundation, which specializes in environmental protection, and...

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

    therefore arrested... * Climate policy | CO2 price | Climate money Open letter from associations to the Finance Minister "Mr. Lindner, pay out the climate money during this legislative period!" Environmental aid, consumer advice centers, diakonia - more than a dozen associations have come together to make an urgent appeal to Finance Minister Lindner. It's about socially just climate policy. 16...

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

    – has been running at full speed for a year and a half, but its capacity is limited... * Recycling | plastic | Tetra Pak | Deposit Deposit on milk drinks in single-use plastic bottles from 2024 German Environmental Aid is calling for this to also be extended to beverage cartons. Success for the environment, resources and recycling: From January 1, 2024, a deposit of 25 cents will be charged on milk drinks in disposable plastic bottles...

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

    “Ecoviel” cleaning products are “good for people and nature,” the company “CDF Cleaning Technology” advertises. This may be bold, but legally it's perfectly fine, assures Thomas Fischer from Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), who helped with the recipe. [...] Two million bottles of "Ecoviel" emit 2986 tons of CO2 during their life cycle, calculates the Institute for Technical Environmental Protection at the TU Berlin for ZDF...

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

    The local court is forcing the federal government to present effective emergency climate programs for transport and buildings as quickly as possible. Environmental associations such as Germanwatch and Deutsche Umwelthilfe, which have sued, are applauding the verdict. And in Dubai, COP28 also began with good news. The fund for damage and losses caused by climate change in small areas, approved at COP27...

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

    The Berlin-Brandenburg Higher Administrative Court decided to take additional immediate measures to reduce greenhouse gases from traffic and buildings. The court decided this after complaints from Deutsche Umwelthilfe and the environmental association BUND. It allowed for revision. The government is now considering whether to go this route... * Greenhouse gas | 1,5 degrees | COP28 “We need an emergency brake” Climate researchers...

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

    writes the UN Weather Organization. The average temperature was two to three degrees higher and the sea levels were ten to 20 meters higher... * Climate protection | Constitutional Court | Environmental Aid Constitutional complaint against the Federal Government Environmental Aid goes to the Constitutional Court: “Many politicians have long since stopped caring about climate protection” German Environmental Aid is moving...

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

    Strengthening. I don't understand why the Ministry of the Environment has not been strengthened into a Ministry of Sustainability with extensive veto rights against unsustainable policies... * Environmental Aid | Climate protection | Complaints PUT PRESSURE! Jürgen Resch wanted to protect nature from a young age. Today he is the best-known, but also the most endangered, environmental and climate protector in Germany...

  12. Newsletter XLII 2023 - October 15th to 21st - News+ For a new concept of fascism

    Krill fishing is causing the entire Antarctic ecosystem to falter and with it the climate stability of our planet," emphasized Sascha Müller-Kraenner, Federal Managing Director of German Environmental Aid (DUH). * United States | Propaganda | Empire The US Empire is not passive and innocent. The stupidest thing what the Empire wants us to believe: that it is defending itself while...

  13. 2000 to 2009 - INES, NAMS and other events

    Although it created a detailed list with hundreds of defects, it was not allowed to be published due to legal resistance from Vattenfall. The report was also not handed over to German Environmental Aid. The nuclear-critical doctors' organization IPPNW accused Vattenfall of not being responsible for the hydrogen explosions in the Brunsbüttel and Krümmel nuclear power plants (Schleswig-Holstein)...

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

    "At sea is now so economically attractive that the project sponsors are outbidding each other for access to sea areas," said Sascha Müller-Kraenner from Deutsche Umwelthilfe, "The myth of expensive green electricity is finally off the table." She is less enthusiastic Offshore Wind Energy Foundation. They fear that in the future this market will only be owned by a few...

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

    There were also bonds worth 630 million euros. This emerges from data underlying the recently published report "Investing in climate chaos" by the environmental organizations Urgewald, Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and Andy Gheorghiu Consulting... May 5th Climate crisis | Society | Wealthy “After me the flood, I have no children”: millionaire outraged on ZDF with climate statement...

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

    means a Germany six degrees warmer. A 3,1 degrees warmer world. This is what the climate policy of the German Ministry of Transport is heading towards. This is the result of a short study commissioned by the German Environmental Aid (DUH) from the New Climate Institute. But what does that mean? The German Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) can hardly support the global climate course alone...

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

    was laughed at or dismissed as a niche, has developed into a stable pillar of the energy transition. This is also a success of the anti-nuclear movement... * Glyphosate | DUH | foodwatch German Environmental Aid and foodwatch initiate legal proceedings against the approval of five pesticides The German Environmental Aid (DUH) and foodwatch are taking legal action for the first time against the approval of...

  18. Newsletter XII 2023 - March 19th to 25th - News+ The poison of doubt is the sugar for the bastard

    of a nuclear war. This second part continues the translation of the article by Francois Diaz-Maurin, which describes the longer-term consequences of nuclear war... * Environmental Aid | LNG terminal Environmental aid: Preparatory work for LNG terminals off Rügen Despite the veto of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's Prime Minister Manuela Schwesig (SPD), according to the German...

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

    supported by several environmental organizations, including Germanwatch, the Solar Energy Promotion Association of Germany (SFV), the BUND (both of which also acted as plaintiffs), the German Environmental Aid, Fridays for Future and Greenpeace... Back to: Newsletter II 2023 - 8. until January 14th Newspaper article 2023 For work on 'THTR Rundbrief', 'reaktorpleite.de' and 'Map of the Nuclear World'...

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

    Claim" was rejected. Since then, he has failed to make any substantial suggestions for reducing greenhouse gases, although the Climate Protection Act also obliges Wissing to do so. The German Environmental Aid even accused the minister of "refusal to work"... * Chomsky | War escalation | Climate crisis | Doomsday clock Noam Chomsky : From Patriot missiles to Orwell propaganda to...

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