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12 Sep 2016

Transport minister changes course, in favour of diesel bans

Spiegel Online

German transport minister Alexander Dobrindt has suggested communes should ban the use of diesel cars when nitrogen oxide levels are high, report Michail Hengstenberg and Gerald Traufetter in Spiegel Online. In a reply to a question by the Green party, the minister said current laws would permit general driving bans in such situations, adding that communes could exempt other types of engines – in effect imposing a diesel ban. After resisting plans for a “blue badge” diesel ban in affected cities, Dobrindt is now in favour of bans because this would shift the responsibility to regional states, according to the report.

Read the report in German here.

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