Thursday, March 28, 2024
Norilsk Nickel has not yet submitted a plan to restore the environment at the oil spill site in Norilsk, head of the environment watchdog Rosprirodnadzor, Svetlana Radionova said on Friday. She hopes that the company will not delay compensation for damage, otherwise her department is ready for litigation, TASS...
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin has signed a decree approving rules of oil and petroleum products spill prevention and response. The document was posted on the official web portal of legal information on Saturday, TASS reported. "Enclosed rules of organizing activities to prevent and respond to oil and petroleum products...
The world needs no hydrogen revolution, but a steady transition, and transportation is the first one in the row, the CEO of L-Charge, a new innovative manufacturer of electric chargers for EV's, Dmitry Lashin writes in a column. Electricity consumption is growing all over the world, on average by 2%...
Moscow has improved its position in the fDi Intelligence analytics company's international Tech Cities of the future, updating its position on four lines and ranking 14th among 76 European cities, according to the information available on Tuesday on the mayor's and municipal administrations official website, TASS reports. The ranking assesses...
A senior aide to Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has said that the country’s authorities are considering barring tourists from visiting Lake Baikal in order to protect its ecosystem, The Telegraph reported.  The world’s deepest and oldest freshwater lake is plagued by pollution for at least two decades. Scientists recently warned...
Russia’s biggest restaurant group is counting on the country’s meat-loving population to embrace Meatless Mondays, a global health initiative encouraging people around the world to go meatless one day a week, The Moscow Times reports. Rosinter launched their Meatless Mondays initiative in restaurants in six major cities mid-October. It encourages...
The new Russian climate policy calls for an only 3% reduction in greenhouse gasses emissions until 2050, a goal far more modest than in other countries, RBC writes. Russia is currently the fourth-largest greenhouse gas emitter in the world, but its climate policy is changing in unprecedented ways. In September...
Residents of the Moscow Region July 7–8 expect a thunderstorm, rain with hail and wind with gusts of up to 22 meters per second, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia for the Moscow Region. Rescuers advise to refrain from traveling and,...
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) will assist the inquiry into the massive pollution of the Pacific Ocean off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula, the regional government said in a statement on its website on Friday, TASS reported. "We agreed that WWF will join the scientific team studying the environmental incident...
Corporate polluters could see their ability to pay shareholders targeted if they are found responsible for damage to the environment, under new plans proposed by the Russian government amid a spate of ecological catastrophes, RT reported. On Wednesday, Moscow paper RBK published the leaked order, which was handed to...