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

    Tempolimit | Solarpaket Reform des Klimaschutzgesetzes: Verwässertes Klimagesetz kommt Die Spitzen der Ampelkoalition einigen sich auf eine umstrittene Reform. Die angedrohten Fahrverbote des Verkehrsministers sind damit vom Tisch. BERLIN taz | Weniger Verbindlichkeit beim Klimaschutz: Die Fraktionen der Ampel-Koalition im Bundestag haben sich bei der Reform des Klimaschutzgesetzes und einem...

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

    of staff. EDIP, Article 19 Freedom of the market can be restricted However, the Commission's plans go far beyond this... * Climate policy | Climate Protection Act | Transport Minister FDP intrigues in the climate protection law Federal Transport Minister Wissing wants to force the adoption of the new climate protection law by scare-mongering about large-scale car driving bans....

  3. Newsletter XIV 2024 - March 31st to April 6th - News+ - It's not just Germany that is getting out

    won - the government in Ankara had the majority of politicians removed from office because of terrorism allegations and replaced by receivers. * Climate protection | Speed ​​limit | Transport Minister “With a speed limit of 100, we could achieve the climate goals this year” An ongoing issue, but no solution: This is how Transport Minister Volker Wissing assesses the debate about the speed limit. Because of...

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    Separate fuel elements from each other using a complex chemical process (PUREX). Separated uranium and plutonium can then be used again. That's the theory... March 24th Transport Minister invests tax money Transport Minister wants to invest 150 million euros in German air taxi startup According to media reports, Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to invest 150 million euros...

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

    | Building sector emissions data 2023: Chancellor must stop breaking the law in the climate protection law Germanwatch calls for immediate programs for the transport and building sector / Transport Minister Wissing's disregard for EU regulations can be expensive for Germany According to the environmental and development organization Germanwatch, delayed climate protection in the transport sector is now...

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

    and the additional cars and trucks need space to drive... This is really only accepted by outsiders among transport scientists, but they are influential because Transport Minister Volker Wissing gets advice from them. Even in the automotive industry we know that due to the increasing electrification and automation of vehicles,...

  7. Newsletter XXXIX 2023 - September 24th to 30th - News+ “Populist, verbally radical, ethnic” – and no end in sight

    The consequences that the Berlin traffic light draws from its failure to protect the climate are breathtaking. Not only does it refuse to apply the law - Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) and Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) are primarily responsible for this - but it also wants to further weaken the already inadequate climate protection law. On Friday last week a...

  8. Newsletter XXXI 2023 - July 30th to August 05th - News+ Brussels buys more fire-fighting aircraft to fight forest fires

    of the rabble and the uneducated. But they are just momentum for right-wing populists. How pseudo-left class hatred from above benefits them. Most recently, it was the CSU politician and former transport minister Peter Ramsauer who embarrassed the political camp, which is often described as bourgeois, with a "vermin" quote in connection with poverty migration. The left spoke of “flawless...

  9. Newsletter XXIX 2023 - July 16 to 22 - News+ I don't want to be my grandson

    and an electrolyzer production, a plant for the production of innovative PEM stacks and an electrified pilot plant for plastic recycling... July 17th Fridays for Future | Transport Minister Wissing | Refusal to work Criticism from Fridays for Future: Fridays demand Wissing's dismissal Fridays for Future presents its own emergency program for transport: Minister Volker Wissing...

  10. Newsletter XXV 2023 - June 18th to 24th - News+ US war machine: Many knew, only he disagreed

    given to the population. Above all, the water-intensive cellulose factories and the agro-industrial plantations of pine and eucalyptus trees created for this purpose... * Tempo 30 | Federal Minister of Transport | Wissing Wissing's obscure choice of words: Nobody asked for a "comprehensive" speed limit of 30. The expansion of the Road Traffic Act is intended to give municipalities more leeway in traffic planning....

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

    | Wissing | Critical dispute over motorway expansion: No agreement in sight The FDP and the Greens continue to argue about whether motorways should be expanded more quickly. NRW will probably miss a deadline set by Federal Transport Minister Wissing on Friday. To build or not to build - this question has been asked for months when it comes to motorways. If additional routes are to be added and existing motorways...

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

    Climate certificate for the traffic lights The expert council fears that Germany will miss its climate targets. No wonder, especially when it comes to traffic, nothing is progressing. Driving is too cheap, and the Transport Minister has been given carte blanche by the Chancellor to do nothing. It sounds so sober: The Expert Council for Climate Issues presents its report on emissions data. But the testimony that the five...

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

    Plans to ban new gas and oil heating systems are causing homeowners to fear high costs and calls for an expansion of state subsidies are becoming louder. Meanwhile, in Brussels, Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) opposed the ban on combustion engines, which had actually been decided long ago, thereby angering the EU Commission and other countries alike. All of this is about...

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

    she spoke publicly about her work on behalf of the Swiss citizens: "One of the main tasks of my last eleven years as Seco director was to ward off more regulation." * Emissions | Minister of Transport | Climate lawsuit minister is constantly breaking the law: will the case end up in court soon? The federal government has achieved its climate target for 2022 and has emitted fewer greenhouse gases overall than...

  15. Newsletter IX 2023 - February 26 to March 4 - News+ 48 days until the last nuclear power plants in Germany are switched off

    has been receiving huge amounts of money for decades and rail has been neglected. To date, the transport transition has been successfully blocked by the car and oil lobby. The current intervention by Transport Minister Wissing in Brussels is just another example of this prevention policy... *** March 3rd Global warming | Fridays for Future | Verdi union fight against global warming...

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

    remain human. It is also forgotten that wars are never just about morals, but rather about interests... * Climate protection | highway | Wissing Highways and climate protection Plans of the Minister of Transport: wider highways for 30 billion euros An analysis by the environmental organization BUND shows that Volker Wissing's plans would bring massive C0₂ emissions. An important factor is...

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

    should have been done by then. * Term debate | Climate protection | Wissing nuclear fission, second part? The running time dispute is being extended The running time debate is becoming a long-term debate: Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP) is provoking a new nuclear power dispute in the traffic light coalition. It didn't work again, Germany missed its climate target again. At least that's what the think tank predicts...

  18. Newsletter XLIX 2022 - December 08th to 14th - News+ Umwelthilfe makes proposals for the rapid development of European photovoltaic production

    take care of the climate in the traffic light government: economy, environment, development, transport, construction and the foreign office. And actually the Chancellery, where the “climate chancellor” resides... * Transport Minister | Highway rail | Public transport Expansion of the motorways: Wissing's confusing acceleration plans Traffic is a crucial factor in the transformation. Now expand motorways and trunk roads instead of...

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

    assumes that things will be turbulent again in 2023: "The CDU and AfD never miss an opportunity to advocate for the continued operation of nuclear power plants, we read from the FDP that their Transport Minister Volker Wissing wants to boost electromobility with nuclear power, and you Chairman, Finance Minister Christian Lindner, had already brought a speed limit on the federal highways into play...

  20. Newsletter XLV 2022 - November 08th to 15th - News+ Penalties for activists - And what about the climate?

    fulfill and exercise justice against everyone. So help me God.” An economics minister who has driven an entire future industry into ruin and out of the country. Transport ministers who have been particularly diligent in lobbying for the car industry, but have otherwise only distinguished themselves by ducking and stalling. Whitewashers and greenwashers who, under the protection of their office...

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