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

    The organizations applied to the EU Commission on Wednesday evening to revoke the glyphosate approval, as the Aurelia Foundation announced. They then want to sue the EU court in Luxembourg against the renewal of the approval. The EU Commission decided in mid-December that the drug could be used in the EU for another ten years. Previously, in a...

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

    corrected and added nuclear power to the list of "strategic" technologies as part of its "general approach" to the NZIA - despite opposition from Germany, Austria and Luxembourg. As a result, nuclear power will benefit from streamlined licensing procedures. A single point of contact in every EU country and the complete digitalization of procedures should...

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

    Diversity of animal and plant species is rapidly reduced. But can the loss be quantified in bare numbers? A working group led by Axel Hochkirch from the Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle in Luxembourg has now carried out such an inventory with the help of the IUCN Red List. [...] The research group examined 14 animal and plant species that live on land and in water and at the end of 669...

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

    showed that in three of the eleven countries examined, all participants had BPA quantities above the limit value that was considered safe. These are France, Portugal and Luxembourg. Bisphenol A is a synthetic chemical found in many plastic products - including reusable water bottles, toys, thermal paper and the interior coating of...

  5. 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 Commission 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 not brought by opponents...

  6. 2010 to 2019 - INES, NAMS and other events

    of the reactor block... Nuclear power plantsPlag Cattenom The Cattenom nuclear power plant is located in the Lorraine region north of Metz on the Moselle and is only a few kilometers from the German and Luxembourg borders. Because of the proximity to the border, the frequent breakdowns and the poor safety standards, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Luxembourg are repeatedly calling for the...

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

    Electricity company used... Translated with https://www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version) May 23 Belgium | Greenpeace | Tihange | Doel Doel 4 and Tihange 3: Greenpeace Luxembourg opposes nuclear power plant lifetime extension LUXEMBOURG/BELGIUM - Deficiencies in safety standards, worst-case scenarios left out: Greenpeace Luxembourg accuses the Belgian authorities of...

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

    will soon become an important place for energy production. Specifically, the nine countries - in addition to Germany and Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and Great Britain - want to build offshore wind turbines with an output of 2030 gigawatts by 120. At least 2050 gigawatts are expected to be generated in the North Sea by 300. Of these, 300 could...

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

    are taking legal action against the Europe-wide classification of natural gas and nuclear energy as “sustainable”. Greenpeace, BUND, WWF and others filed lawsuits against the EU Commission with the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the organizations announced. They accuse Commission President Ursula von der Leyen's authority of "greenwashing". Last year the environmental organizations...

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

    Circumstances considered sustainable; the regulation has been in effect since the turn of the year. The commission rejected the complaint last week. Greenpeace has now announced that it will file a lawsuit with the EU court in Luxembourg in April. And it's not the only lawsuit: the Austrian government has also filed a lawsuit. Other governments have until the beginning of March to join the lawsuit...

  11. Newsletter VI 2023 - February 5th to 11th - News+ War is peace, peace is war

    Environmental organization Greenpeace has announced a lawsuit against the classification of gas and nuclear power in the EU as sustainable. In April, Greenpeace will file a lawsuit with the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg in connection with the so-called taxonomy regulation, the environmental organization announced... * Climate protection | Climate dirt lobby | Lobbying How climate protection is slowed down...

  12. Newsletter V 2023 - January 29 to February 4 - News+ Je suis mud monk

    noted. Production block one of the Cattenom nuclear power plant is producing electricity again. This emerges from a press release from the operator EDF, which was distributed on Wednesday (February 1.2) in Luxembourg by the rescue corps CGDIS. On the night of February 1st, the reactor was reconnected to the national power grid. The staff on site is now “carrying out the tests and...

  13. Newsletter IV 2023 - January 22nd to 28th - News+ How the FDP politician Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann plays down her proximity to the armaments lobby

    and a possible referendum on the stage – then the first construction work on the site can begin. The deep repository is expected to cost 23 billion francs. * France | EDF | Cattenom Luxembourg is concerned about the safety of Cattenom LUXEMBOURG/CATTENOM – Should Cattenom be closed? Greenpeace warns about the safety of the facilities as the government tries to...

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

    5.677 MW (2021: 3.257 MW). That's an increase of 74,3 percent... * France | Cattenom | Spare parts Cracks in the Cattenom nuclear power plant: Were inferior spare parts installed? Cattenom/Luxembourg The cracks in pipes at the Cattenom nuclear power plant continue to make headlines. Now there is a suspicion that there has been sloppiness in the production of spare parts that are to be used for this...

  15. Newsletter LII 2022 - December 26-31 - News+ Putin and Lavrov should have gone before the UN

    can the new regulation be overturned? Critics hope to overturn the regulation. Austria has filed a lawsuit with the General Court of the European Union (ECC), which Luxembourg also wants to join. However, this action for annulment has no suspensive effect. Greenpeace and other environmental organizations have also announced legal action. “Nuclear power and natural gas...

  16. Newsletter XL 2022 - October 09th to 15th - News+ In the hyperloop of excitement

    Gearbox and therefore with a slowly rotating generator, but comparatively large and lavishly equipped with magnets, generated almost 15 MWh per hour... * Austria | Luxembourg | Taxonomy | Nuclear phase-out Continues trouble with nuclear power Austria is suing against the EU taxonomy, which classifies nuclear power as sustainable and sells it as "green". Luxembourg supports the lawsuit. 2021...

  17. Newsletter XXXIX 2022 - October 01st to 08th - News+ Belgium shows problems with extending the runtimes of nuclear power plants

    a lawsuit before the European Court of Justice. Austria is suing the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg over the EU Commission's planned classification of nuclear energy as sustainable. "Nuclear power and gas are neither green nor sustainable. That's why, as announced, we have filed a lawsuit against the EU Commission's taxonomy regulation," explained Climate Protection Minister...

  18. Important newspaper articles on Atom * ... etc. from 2018

    Euro loss, so far... March 13, 2018 - Reactor fiasco even more expensive * Seven years after Fukushima March 10, 2018 - Japan's government fights for impression of normality * March 05, 2018 - Luxembourg wants to build alliance against nuclear power * Long-lasting radioactive Contamination March 02, 2018 - Fukushima: Uranium detected in the fallout *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** Freedom of the press 28...

  19. Analytical task forces

    participated in several German and international exercises in recent years: EUDREX (Austria, September 2004), EURATECH (France, April 2005), BIOTECT (Denmark, May 2006), EULUX (Luxembourg, 2007), VARIOUS ATTACKs RESPONSE (France, November 2008), etc. The ATF Mannheim has already been deployed several times nationally and internationally: XX. World Youth Day of the Catholic Church (Cologne,...

  20. Important newspaper articles about Atom ... * etc. since 2011

    Wolfram König on the fake safety investigations at the Philippsburg nuclear power plant April 14, 2016 - “The standards must not be lowered” * Decrepit nuclear reactor April 12, 2016 - Luxembourg offers France money to shut down a nuclear power plant * April 06, 2016 - EnBW lawsuit over nuclear phase-out rejected *** 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 *** March 25, 2016 - Fear of the...

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