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

    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 der Europäischen Chemikalienagentur (Echa). Auch Behörden aus Deutschland wie...

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

    Schweiz mehr: Deutschland verschont Superreiche Die Mittelschicht zahlt in Deutschland und Österreich mehr Steuern als Milliardäre und Multimillionäre. In der Schweiz müssen diese mehr abgeben. BERLIN taz | 73 Milliarden Euro: So viel könnte der deutsche Staat einnehmen, wenn die Vermögensteuern auf Schweizer Niveau angehoben würden. Österreich würde das Schweizer Steuerniveau etwa 5 Milliarden...

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

    Harvested a week later, but they did not suffer from sunburn and there was no hail damage, according to the farmer. * Anti-Semitism | Entry ban | Palestine Congress “Palestine Congress” dissolved in Berlin: fight for sovereignty of interpretation Only two hours after it began, the police dissolved the controversial “Palestine Congress”. The dispute is now raging online about the procedure. BERLIN taz | It...

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

    he to the NDR Lower Saxony... * Anti-Semitism | Youth organizations | Palestine Congress “Against the glorification of terror and anti-Semitism”: Young members of the party protest against the Palestine Congress in Berlin Israel haters are planning a Palestine Congress in a week. The youth organizations of the SPD, Union, FDP and Greens are now calling for a joint protest. Against the April 12th to 14th in Berlin...

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    Mile Island, USA We are always looking for current information. If you can help, please send a message to: kernare-welt@reaktorpleite.de March 30th Easter March | Peace movement Berlin Easter March: Thousands demonstrate against war and rearmament The procession led over Karl-Marx-Allee through parts of Berlin-Friedrichshain. Counter-demonstrators gathered on Rigaer Strasse...

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

    three decades until they are ready for use," says physicist Christoph Pistner from the Öko-Institut, who worked on the study. According to the German Press Agency (dpa), Christian von Hirschhausen from the Technical University of Berlin even sees the market maturity and competitiveness of these technologies only in the next “five to six decades”. No solution for climate goals and...

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

    The building sector missed the legally required reduction targets for the fourth time in a row - despite meeting the annual emissions total for the past year. Lutz Weischer, head of the Berlin office of Germanwatch: “Both the federal government’s emergency measures in 2022 and the climate protection program in 2023 violate the Climate Protection Act. Since Transport Minister Wissing...

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

    against reusable EU packaging regulations: 189 kilos of plastic waste The EU wants to set quotas for recycled plastic and specifications for reusable offers. It is unclear whether the FDP will torpedo this. BERLIN taz | Let's see whether the FDP in Brussels blocks another important law this week. This Monday, the packaging regulation is on the agenda in Brussels. With her, the EU wants...

  9. Newsletter IX 2024 - February 25th to March 2nd - News+ Deceptively real AI videos: What if we can no longer believe anything?

    direct and indirect employees play a central role in supplying East Germany with gasoline and other refined products. But parts of western Poland are also supplied, as is Berlin-Brandenburg Airport. * Investment | Power grid | Network expansion Network agency plans five mega routes 4800 kilometers of new lines, estimated additional costs of 76 billion euros: The...

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

    LNG from Russia: Russian liquid gas in the EU By exporting fossil energy to Europe, 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....

  11. Newsletter VII 2024 - February 11th to 17th - Current+ super election year in the crucial climate decade

    stand on the street every Friday so that the federal government quietly whispers climate protection in its sleep," explains Luisa Neubauer from Fridays for Future Germany to the press in Berlin on Thursday. [...] The concrete demand for politicians: an end to austerity and Instead, large-scale investments in climate protection and social cohesion. As a first step...

  12. Newsletter VI 2024 - February 4th to 10th - News+ Nuclear power is a dead horse - why isn't Merz getting down?

    Cologne from this week is also legal (Az: 13 L 1124/23). The JA has lodged a complaint against this. According to a current decision made by the Berlin Administrative Court in an expedited procedure, there is also no objection to the fact that the 2022 Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution assumes an “extremist potential” of around 30 to 40 percent of all AfD members (ref.: VG 1 L...

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

    February 3 demonstrations | Right-wing extremism More than 200.000 people against right-wing extremism Tens of thousands of people protested against right-wing extremism in Germany. According to the police, there were 150.000 demonstrators in Berlin alone. Numerous people also took to the streets in other cities. Protests in Berlin under the motto “We are the firewall: alliance against the right”...

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

    make big profits,” says the trade unionist... * Terror | stop | manipulation | Evidence Amri's pistol had been cleaned before the investigation Even years after the attack on Berlin's Breitscheidplatz, new manipulations continue to be encountered. When the weapon came to Germany for forensic examination almost three years ago, the forensic experts determined that it...

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

    without Russians: Rosatom should not go to Lingen The Russian company wants to get involved in fuel rod production in Lower Saxony. Environmentalists are calling for the approval process to be aborted. BERLIN taz | The ongoing approval process for the expansion of the fuel element factory in Lingen, Lower Saxony, must be canceled. This is what anti-nuclear initiatives called for on Wednesday in Hanover. The...

  16. 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

    analyzed during the Nazi regime... * Peasant protests | bureaucracy | Vehicle tax Before the final rally at farmers' protests, FDP leader Lindner offers farmers relief Berlin · Despite the massive protests, the government does not want to make any further concessions to the farmers: the planned, gradual dismantling of agricultural diesel aid will remain. Finance Minister Lindner presents...

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

    than 170 kilometers on motorways through the most densely populated regions of North Rhine-Westphalia - for example through the Düsseldorf airport tunnel or over the dilapidated 'Berlin Bridge' of the A59 in the middle of my hometown of Duisburg. Any damage to the castors could lead to the release of radioactivity. Matthias Eickhoff: In addition, nuclear waste is...

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

    Environmental Aid (DUH), who helped with the recipe. [...] Two million bottles of “Ecoviel” emit 2986 tons of CO2 over their lifetime, the Institute for Technical Environmental Protection at the TU Berlin calculates for ZDF Frontal – about as much as 2000 cars emit per year. For 2400 euros, 3000 tons of CO2 are greenwashed. But compensation is not a problem, the editorial team believes. A climate certificate...

  19. Newsletter LI 2023 - December 17th to 23rd - Current news + steps towards climate change, unsettled OPEC and loving politics

    Fighter aircraft, the Future Combat Air System (FCAS). The costs are estimated at 100 billion euros. But a Greenpeace study shows: They could grow to up to 2 trillion euros. Heads are spinning again in Berlin. The traffic light continues to try to hold together its difficult-to-reach budget agreement. The fact that she wanted to cut off almost a billion in subsidies for farmers...

  20. Newsletter L 2023 - December 10th to 16th - News+ The tail wags the dog and those on the right lead us by the nose ring “Back to the Future”

    Constitutional lawsuit against the federal budget. As was to be expected, the farmers' association strongly opposed it. Chairman Rukwied speaks of a declaration of war and announces protests in Berlin for Monday, thereby fueling farmers' protests. In doing so, he shows that he is still not prepared to work on solving central social tasks: climate protection and dependence on oil, including all...