Tag: Environmental Protection
Oil multi in focus: The Shell ruling is of little help to the climate
Saturday 29th May 2021 Focus on oil multi The Shell ruling does little to help the climate A comment by Timo Pache Courts put pressure on in the fight against…
Opportunity or catastrophe ?: Germany is promoting deep-sea mining
Sunday May 16, 2021 Opportunity or disaster? Germany is promoting deep-sea mining Large parts of the deep sea are still undeveloped. That could change soon, because important raw materials are…
“People like to keep quiet”: Customers use plastic bags billions of times
Saturday, May 8th, 2021 “Will be kept secret” Customers use plastic bags billions of times While plastic shopping bags will be banned from supermarkets for good from next year, the…
Gigafactory in Brandenburg: Tesla factory could endanger drinking water
Tuesday March 16, 2021 Gigafactory in Brandenburg Tesla factory could endanger drinking water Tesla needs large amounts of water to produce its e-cars in Grünheide, Brandenburg. The head of the…
The "zombie pipeline" is over: Biden wants to stop Keystone XL
Monday, January 18, 2021 Off for the "zombie pipeline" Biden wants to stop Keystone XL The Keystone XL pipeline will transport crude oil from the Canadian province of Alberta to…
Petrol and oil now with CO2 price: Emissions trading brings the tax authorities billions
Friday, January 1st, 2021 Petrol and oil now with a CO2 price Emissions trading brings the tax authorities billions In the past year, government revenues from pollution rights fell slightly.…
Green economy as an economic factor: 35 million new jobs expected
Friday 11th December 2020 EU tightened climate target Business sees the green economy as an opportunity From Oliver Scheel Europe has formulated a much more ambitious climate target for 2030.…
ÖDP politician fights against Tesla: "Our civil rights are at stake"
The construction of the Tesla factory in Brandenburg is already well advanced – the approval process, however, not yet. The country leader of the environmental protection party ÖDP, Thomas Loeb,…
Oil production in nature reserve: US government presents roadmap
In Alaska there are said to be enormous reserves of oil and gas. There has been controversy in US politics for decades about possible exploitation. If the Trump administration has…
China defies the global trend: the number of coal-fired plants is falling for the first time
No new coal-fired power plants have been built in Germany for many years. Elsewhere in Europe, too, interest in dirty energy sources is waning. And according to a new study,…