The city of Munich must expect another lawsuit from the German Environmental Aid (DUH) and the German Traffic Club (VCD). On Wednesday, the city council decided at the request of the SPD to release nursing staff and shift workers by general decree from the driving ban on certain diesel cars that has been in force since Wednesday. You no longer have to apply for an individual exemption. This means that they are no longer obliged to prove whether they are...
As of: 01/30/2023 4:22 p.m It should soon be possible to expand wind turbines more quickly and easily. The Federal Cabinet has agreed on the omission of many environmental protection tests that have been necessary up to now. Solar systems and heat pumps should also move faster. The Federal Cabinet has approved new regulations for an accelerated expansion of wind energy. According to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, the ministers of the traffic light coalition approved the implementation of an...
Status: 01/28/2023 10:42 a.m Canadians produce around 38 million tons of plastic waste every year - too much, the government also thinks: A gradual ban should make the country the global leader in the fight against plastic. By Antje Passenheim, ARD Studio New York "Spare me!" rebuffs a supermarket customer in the Canadian metropolis of Toronto when the cashier reaches for the bag. It's good that all the plastic waste will soon be over, he says - and praises the...
Bern Convention Azerbaijan is suing Armenia over environmental damage in the contested Nagorno-Karabakh region Remnants of an unexploded missile are sticking out of the ground, contaminating the ground © Chris Huby / DPA Armenia is threatened with repair payments in the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh. Because the opponent Azerbaijan accuses the country of massive environmental destruction in the occupied Caucasus region. A precedent for environmental protection in wartime? In the tug-of-war over the contested region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan is daring to...
The Federal Administrative Court has strengthened the right of action for the Federal Nature Conservation Association (BN) and other environmental organizations in Bavaria. According to the conviction of Germany's top administrative judges, the administrative courts in the Free State must not declare lawsuits by nature conservationists against construction projects inadmissible with the argument that they have been completed and put into operation in the meantime. Instead, they have to decide on lawsuits, even if the construction of the project in...
Useful tool or consumer deception? Several associations are asking the Council of State to ban the “high environmental value” (HVE) agricultural label, accused of “greenwashing” and consumer deception, in a letter sent out on Monday. The request on behalf of seven associations for the defense of consumers, the defense of the environment and the promotion of organic farming “aims at the cancellation of the regulatory provisions” implementing the HVE. “It was filed on Friday,” assured AFP Nadine Lauverjat, general delegate...
The government wants to take a step towards youth. Elisabeth Borne said she was ready on Monday, during a meeting in Matignon, to “associate” young people with the preparation of public policies relating to ecological transition. "I hear (…) your request to associate yourself, not just occasionally but on an ongoing basis, with the preparation of policies on all these subjects", affirmed the Prime Minister at the end of a National Council for Refoundation ( CNR) at Matignon devoted to...
500 euros suspended fine for having stopped the peloton for ten minutes. This is the sentence pronounced this Tuesday by the correctional court of Auch against the six activists of the environmental collective "Last Renovation" who, on July 22, 2022, lay down on the route of the Tour de France. The action took place on a Gers departmental road, in Lasseube-Propre.Tried for obstructing the circulation of vehicles on a public road, the defendants had, during the hearing on November 22,...
SUVs in the crosshairs. An environmental collective called "Stop SUV Lille" claims this Tuesday morning, a militant action, near Lille, in the North, towards the owners of these large cars which have become fashionable for a few years. In a press release, the activists announce that they have deflated, overnight from Monday to Tuesday, the tires of 65 SUVs "in the upscale district of Lambersart" to put them "out of harm's way".The method is simple. "Using beans, they blocked the...
What causes our defense to attack the body's own structures is not entirely clear. But: In addition to the individual predisposition, environmental influences should also be involved. Constanze Loeffler Which factors are particularly important when it comes to autoimmune diseases? "I like to talk about the 'soup' of environmental factors that damage us. And in the city, the soup is particularly thick," says Claudia Traidl-Hoffmann, an environmental doctor at the University of Augsburg. Particulate matter, noise and stress have an...
