February 22, 2017
Süddeutsche ZeitungSignal to Berlin
Stuttgart had run out of options to cut
nitrogen dioxide pollution,
a poison that makes people ill and even kills them, writes Jan Heidtmann in a commentary for Süddeutsche Zeitung.
He argues the state government also wants to put pressure on federal transport minister Alexander Dobrindt, from CDU sister party CSU, who resists federal regulation to introduce driving bans using a “blue badge” to label cleaner cars. Heidtmann argues this is why it’s partly the minister’s fault that
nitrogen dioxide levels now exceed legal limits in almost 80 German cities, including Berlin and Munich.
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