April 20, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant begins tests, but when will it get its uranium? St Petersburg’s Baltic Shipyard has announced it will begin a series of tests on Russia’s first floating nuclear power plant in a move […]
April 18, 2017 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law The European Court of Human Rights demands answers on Russia’s foreign agent law The European Court of Human Rights wants some answers on how Russian determines which non-profits are “foreign agents” and how it […]
April 17, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Russia plans large nuclear transport vessel with an unclear mission Russia has announced plans to build an enormous ice-class ship to ferry nuclear waste and spent nuclear fuel from points along the Northern […]
April 13, 2017 Arctic Transport and Shipping, Electric mobility, Transport Norway’s Transport Plan 2018 – 2029: Ambitious targets, lack of concrete measures On 5 April Norway published its National Transport Plan (NTP) for the period 2018-2029. This long anticipated plan was intended to provide a […]
April 12, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Northwest Russia polluter posts impressive cuts in harmful emissions In a surprising development, the Kola Mining and Metallurgy Company –which for decades has stubbornly fouled air over Northwest Russia and […]
April 6, 2017 Climate change, Fossil fuels One Russian environmental group turns focus to coal The Russian environmental group Ecodefense is conducting what it calls a “coal tour” of Russia to highlight issues of its mining and […]
April 5, 2017 Electric mobility, Transport The glory days of Norwegian electro-mobility success and the struggle to stay in the spotlight Ever since Bellona imported Norway’s first modern electric vehicle in 1989, the country has grown to become one of the world’s leaders […]
April 4, 2017 Arctic, Nuclear issues, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Officials talk up new nuclear icebreakers in spite of Arctic ship traffic slump Russian officials project a fivefold increase of traffic through the Northern Sea Route by 2022 and insist that newline nuclear icebreakers […]
April 4, 2017 Electric mobility, European Union Equipping Europe’s buildings for an electro-mobile future The currently ongoing revision of the Energy Performance in Buildings Directive (EPBD) offers a once-in-a-decade opportunity to get […]
April 3, 2017 Arctic, Climate change, International climate conferences Trump-like ‘friend’ of Putin tells him climate change isn’t man-made Russian President Vladimir Putin, like his counterpart in the US White House, doesn’t believe climate change is man-made, and has Trumpian […]
April 3, 2017 Ukraine (Без)вуглецеве майбутнє. Вчені зобразили шлях дотримання Паризької угоди до 2050 року Тетяна Кармелюк Заборона продажу автомобілів з двигунами внутрішнього […]
March 30, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norilsk Nickel wants tax deductions on its environmental investments Siberian industrial giant Norilsk Nickel, one of Russia’s most polluting, has since 2014 been investing significant funds in unspecified […]
March 29, 2017 Electric mobility, European Union Bellona highlights Norwegian EV success story at European Parliament BRUSSELS – Yesterday, 28 March 2017, the Platform for Electro-Mobility, of which Bellona is a founding member, hosted a high level […]
March 28, 2017 Climate change, International climate conferences Trump poised take first steps against climate action – and trip into a legal morass President Donald Trump Tuesday plans to launch an executive order to roll back Obama-era regulations aimed at curbing climate changing […]
March 28, 2017 European Union, Transport Getting the fossil car industry to pay the human health bill Poor air quality, largely resulting from conventionally fueled road transport, is Europe’s largest environmental health hazard, claiming […]
March 27, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia New radioactive Iodine detected in Norway and Finland – more breaking fake news likely to follow The mystery surrounding a release of iodine over Europe in January deepened earlier this month as a second minor spike of radiation again […]
March 27, 2017 Carbon Capture and Storage, Climate change A decadal staircase to 2°C: time to step up Climate change has a long and prolific track record when it comes to talks. Yet talking the talk turned out to be far from walking the […]
March 26, 2017 Nuclear issues How a Bellona report got swept up in a squall of fake news about a secret nuclear meltdown Early this month, Bellona’s General Director and nuclear physicist Nils Bøhmer wrote a short work-a-day analysis of a small leak of […]
March 23, 2017 Nuclear issues, Nuclear USA, Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Trump suggests reviving Yucca Mountain, reopening ancient debates over America’s nuclear trash A proposed national budget from the White House of Donald Trump seeks to greenlight the on-again, off-again nuclear waste repository at […]
March 23, 2017 Electric mobility, European Union The role of public procurement in boosting clean vehicle demand Public authorities are a powerful purchaser on the market and therefore key actors in driving the transition to a zero-emission, electric […]
