October 20, 2016 Industrial Pollution, Shipbreaking Danish shipping giant caught beaching ships in India and Bangladesh Shipping conglomerate Maersk said on Monday it was striving to improve workers’ rights at shipbreaking yards it uses in India after […]
October 18, 2016 Arctic, Fossil fuels Environmentalists file suit against the Norwegian government over Arctic Drilling In a groundbreaking legal action, two Norwegian environmental organizations, Nature and Youth and Greenpeace, have filed suit against the […]
August 25, 2016 The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Former Russian eco-watchdog pleads guilty to ignoring Northern Russian pollution for bribes MURMANSK– Ruslan Tischenko, a former official from Murmansk’s division of Russia’s federal environmental watchdog, pleaded guilty in […]
August 23, 2016 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Lone Norwegian mayor accuses Russian oligarch of fouling the Arctic: When will Oslo follow? KIRKENES, Norway – Following a gathering of politicians and citizens in this town earlier this month, calls from its mayor to forbid […]
August 21, 2016 Nuclear Russia Russian nuclear corporation issues unlikely decree for reactor construction near Murmansk A Russian government decree published on the first of the month indicates the country plans to construct 11 new nuclear power reactors by […]
August 11, 2016 The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Norwegian politicians and citizens call Norilsk Nickel ‘dirtiest industry in the Arctic’ KIRKENES, Norway – Residents of this Norwegian-Russian border town have long suffered enormous sulfur dioxide emissions from Russian […]
August 9, 2016 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel When haste makes risky waste: Public involvement in radioactive and nuclear waste management in Sweden and Finland MOSCOW – How did it happen that in Sweden, the country that developed the technology for deep geological disposal of radioactive waste, […]
August 8, 2016 The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Russian official accused of taking bribes from notoriously polluting plant MURMANSK– A former official with the Murmansk Region’s division of Russia’s federal environmental watchdog has been accused by […]
August 4, 2016 Nuclear issues in ex-soviet republics Russian nuclear officials attempt to bury construction mishap at Belarusian Nuclear Power Plant Thirty years after Chenobyl contaminated up to a quarter of Belarus, the country is building a nuclear plant of its own with Russia’s […]
August 3, 2016 Radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel Public hearing on Sayda Bay nuclear waste storage draws few as eco-groups call it safe A public hearing on a radioactive waste conditioning center and an environmental impact report on its operation at Sayda Bay in Russia’s […]
July 31, 2016 Electric mobility A guide to US electric cars and the love affair of with the American highway NEW ORLEANS – The romance of cars is a part of the American landscape. They hold the promise of freedom. The great American road trip is […]
June 20, 2016 Fossil fuels, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian nuclear icebreakers fleet Hull of Russia’s new goliath icebreaker puts to water Russia’s new Arktika nuclear icebreaker has put to water at St. Petersburg’s Baltika Shipyard, heralding a new line of icebreakers for […]
June 15, 2016 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Russia trumpets dubious success in weapons plutonium destruction agreement Russia has fulfilled is agreement under the US-Russia surplus weapons plutonium disposition agreement of 2000, Sergei Kiriyenko, head of […]
June 14, 2016 Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Deputy PM says Russia’s floating nuke plant must be smaller Leonid Rogozin, Russia’s often antic deputy prime minister for defense, weighed in on the Akademik Lomonosov, Russian State nuclear […]
June 8, 2016 Nuclear Agreements, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia Andreyeva Bay spent nuclear fuel site hit by helicopter – in training exercise MURMANSK – Above Andreyeva Bay, the notoriously radioactive storage site for spent submarine fuel in Northwest Russia, a helicopter […]
June 6, 2016 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russia’s Putin finalizes baffling new NGO amendments by signing them into law Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed into law amendments to the country’s NGO legislation, which purport to make the term […]
June 1, 2016 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Walking a mile in a foreign agent’s shoes: What do Russian NGOs have to look forward to? As new, more restrictive amendments to Russia’s NGO law await President Vladimir Putin’s signature, yet more non-profits have found […]
May 30, 2016 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Major rights watchdog says Putin should not sign new NGO law amendments International rights watchdog Human Rights Watch has condemned the Russian Duma’s recent adoption of amendments to the country’s […]
May 26, 2016 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian parliament’s upper chamber approves NGO law amendments in a giant step to making them law Russia’s Federation Council, the upper chamber of Parliament, has approved new amendments defining “political activity” in Russia’s […]
May 23, 2016 Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law Russian Duma defines ‘political activity’ for NGOs, adding more ambiguous criteria to name ‘foreign agents’ Russia’s Duma passed what it calls a definitive meaning of the term “political activity’ as it relates to the country’s embattled […]
