September 26, 2017 Industrial Pollution, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law New Russian pollution report long on scary data, short on solutions In another surprisingly frank pronouncement on Russia’s health, the country’s environmental oversight agency has said 16 million of its citizens…
September 13, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Prosecutors reveal reluctance of Russian officials to enforce environmental fines Russian prosecutors say the country’s environmental oversight agency has failed to chase down $70 million in fines from polluters in…
August 28, 2017 Industrial Pollution How to get rid of the coal dust choking Murmansk? Call Putin! A few weeks ago, Russia’s northern port of Murmansk, which spends much of the year swathed in a choking coal…
June 5, 2017 Industrial Pollution, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Vague Russian promises on slashing pollution continue to frustrate Norway More than two decades of successful environmental cooperation between Norway and Russia, especially on coping with the Cold War nuclear…
June 1, 2017 Arctic, Industrial Pollution, Nuclear issues, Nuclear Russia, Russian human rights issues, Russian NGO law, The Kola Mining and Metallurgy Combine Bellona seminar sums up Russia’s Year of the Environment “It’s totally unacceptable that Nikel’s emissions continue – we have told he Russians that emissions must go down,” said Norwegian…
