Monday, December 4, 2023

Tag: EU

EU votes to cut pesticide use in half by 2030

“This vote brings us one step closer to significantly reducing chemical pesticide use by 2030."

EU bans new sales of new fossil fuel powered cars and...

“Today’s vote is a historic vote for the ecological transition… it is a victory for our planet and our populations.”

EU votes to label gas and nuclear power investments as ‘green’

"Russia’s war against Ukraine is a war paid for by climate-heating fossil fuels and the European parliament just voted to boost billions of funding to fossil gas from Russia."

‘No time for half-measures’: Greenpeace rebukes EU’s partial ban on Russian...

The new embargo exempts pipeline imports at the behest of Hungary's far-right leader Viktor Orbán.

‘Elon, there are rules’: EU says Twitter must comply with new...

"If [Twitter] does not comply with our law there are sanctions—6% of the revenue and, if they continue, banned from operating in Europe."

EU scientists and politicians clash over gas and nuclear as ‘sustainable’...

Scientific experts have reiterated what they have been saying since the beginning: gas and nuclear have no place in the taxonomy.

Ban of three bee-killing neonicotinoid pesticides holds up in EU court

“The Court of Justice has reaffirmed that protecting nature and people’s health takes precedence over the narrow economic interests of powerful multinationals..."

EU plans to measure true climate impacts of LNG imports from...

Whether this latest E.U. analysis will help finally turn the world's attention on this trans-Atlantic blind spot remains to be seen.

Germany to ban glyphosate by 2023

“What harms insects also harms people.”

Green Party wins record support in EU elections as youth-led climate...

The next president of the European Commission will likely be Bas Eickhout of the Dutch Green Party.

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On the brink: Supreme Court may endanger Voting Rights Act’s legacy

Facing a historic legal challenge, the Voting Rights Act's future hangs in balance.

US media’s complicity in ignoring Gaza’s plight: a critical examination of systematic bias

Analyzing the evasion of ethical journalism in the face of Gaza's humanitarian crisis.

U.S. arms transfers to Israel: over 70,000 weapons since 1950

A detailed report unveils the extent of U.S. military aid to Israel, spotlighting the profound implications of this support on the longstanding conflict in Gaza.

“The madness of militarism,” the 2023 Ellsberg lecture by Norman Solomon

Norman Solomon reflects on 'the madness of militarism' in the Ellsberg Lecture

Unprecedented crisis engulfs Gaza as Israeli strikes intensify

Escalation in Gaza: recent surge in violence deepens humanitarian crisis.