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German automotive group Mercedes-Benz will not face criminal charges in the United States in the long-running scandal over emissions of nitrogen oxides, according to information obtained by dpa. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has closed its investigation, according to a letter sent to the company in March and made available to dpa. The story was first reported in the German business newspaper Handlesblatt. "With the DOJ's decision, we are taking another important step towards legal certainty in connection with various diesel proceedings," said Renata Jungo Brüngger of the board of manageme...
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Germany has been making little progress toward goals of electrifying most of its railway network by adding overhead lines, according to two transport advocacy groups. Around 600 kilometres of overhead electric lines would need to be built every year in order to hit the German government's goal of electrifying three-quarters of the country's rail network by 2030, according to the Pro-Rail Alliance and the Association of German Transport Companies (VDV) on Wednesday. But over the past 13 years, an average of only around 80 kilometres have been added each year, the groups said, meaning constructi...
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Lightning, thunderstorms and heavy rains have killed 29 people in Pakistan amid predictions of more rough weather in the South Asian country, which is particularly vulnerable to the impact of climate change. At least 17 people including children and women were killed in the central province of Punjab when lightning struck at different places, rescue official Farooq Ahmad said. Another eight people lost their lives to heavy rains and thunderstorms in the south-western region of Balochistan, the local disaster management agency said. Falling roofs and crumbling walls after two days of downpour c...
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The German government will largely put an end to the sale of valuable publicly owned farmland in the former communist East Germany, and instead favour leases over sales. Ministers from states in the former East Germany struck an agreement with the German government on the policy on Thursday, despite protests from agricultural industry groups against the freeze. Since German reunification in 1990, forests and fields owned by the East German state have been gradually privatized through sales to farmers and investors. Currently, about 91,000 hectares are still owned by the German government and a...
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Jobs at German chemical company BASF's plant in Harjavalta, Finland, are at stake due to repeated delays and a court impasse over obtaining permits from authorities. BASF warned on Thursday that it is now considering indefinite layoffs of all employees at the plant if the permitting issue is not resolved. The chemical company plans to produce precursor chemicals for batteries at the plant, but efforts to win regulatory approval in Finland in order to commission the facility have been dragging on for years. Most recently, a Finnish court suspended an environmental permit granted at the end of 2...
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The European Parliament has given the green light for a new EU law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector. A majority of MEPs in Brussels voted in favour of the regulations on Wednesday, which will mean stricter rules for the oil, gas and coal industries. In November, parliamentary negotiators reached an agreement with their counterparts from the EU member states on the corresponding law. According to this, operators of oil and gas plants will be required to regularly search for and repair major methane leaks in future. In coal mining, methane emissions are to be measured and repor...
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The European Parliament has given the green light for a new EU law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector. A majority of MEPs in Brussels voted in favour of the regulations on Wednesday, which will mean stricter rules for the oil, gas and coal industries. In November, parliamentary negotiators reached an agreement with their counterparts from the EU member states on the corresponding law. According to this, operators of oil and gas plants will be required to regularly search for and repair major methane leaks in future. In coal mining, methane emissions are to be measured and repor...
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The European Parliament has given the green light for a new EU law to reduce methane emissions from the energy sector. A majority of MEPs in Brussels voted in favour of the regulations on Wednesday, which will mean stricter rules for the oil, gas and coal industries. In November, parliamentary negotiators reached an agreement with their counterparts from the EU member states on the corresponding law. According to this, operators of oil and gas plants will be required to regularly search for and repair major methane leaks in future. In coal mining, methane emissions are to be measured and repor...
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Liquefied natural gas (LNG) can be landed on the German Baltic Sea island of Rügen and fed into the national distribution network after being converted into gas. The local Environmental Agency authorized the regular operation of the terminal in the port of Mukran on Tuesday, the Ministry of the Environment for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern said in the state capital Schwerin. A spokesman for the ministry said that the authorization will take effect when it is handed over to the operator Deutsche ReGas on Wednesday. The controversial terminal on the east coast of the Baltic Sea island is a...
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Climate activists in Switzerland on Tuesday won a landmark case in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) holding that authorities had failed to adequately mitigate climate change, in a ruling which could set a precedent for similar complaints. The court found "critical gaps in the process of putting in place the relevant domestic regulatory framework" for mitigating climate change in Switzerland. For example, Switzerland "failed to quantify, through a carbon budget or otherwise" national greenhouse gas emissions limits. The European court in Strasbourg handed down closely watched verdicts ...
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