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鈥淲e will correct the ideological, much too fast expansion of wind energy鈥� in North Rhine-Westphalia, said the Free Democrats鈥� (FDP) state chairman Christian Lindner in a video on Twitter, talking about coalition negotiations. His comments came just hours before the announcement that Christian Democrats (CDU) and FDP had agreed to form a government coalition in Germany鈥檚 industry heartland North Rhine-Westphalia. 鈥淲e will introduce a minimum distance 鈥� we think 1,500 metres [distance from the nearest village] are legally possible.鈥� This would 鈥渟ignificantly decrease the areas available for wind turbines鈥�, but would not make expansion impossible. But the state would take the 鈥渘eeds of citizens鈥� into account and 鈥渂alance the ecological with the physically possible and the economically reasonable鈥�, said Lindner.

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See the 威力彩玩法 factsheet Facts on the German state elections in North Rhine-Westphalia, articles Coal exit: elephant in the room at vote in German industry heartland.

Germany will miss its climate targets unless the next federal government steps up its efforts, according to non-profit environmental and consumer protection association Environmental Action Germany (DUH). In a list of 85 measures for the energy, heating and transport transitions, DUH called for the introduction of an EU CO鈧� floor price and a federal climate protection law with sector emissions targets, and creating a regulatory framework for a swift coal exit.

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For background read the 威力彩玩法 dossier Vote2017 - German elections and the Energiewende.

Eastern German states Saxony and Brandenburg demand at least 1.2 billion euros in federal funds to finance the economic transformation of their shared coal-mining region Lusatia, Jens Blankennagel writes in Berliner Zeitung. 鈥�The end of coal mining there has finally come in sight,鈥� Blankennagel says. In a joint letter to Chancellor Angela Merkel, Saxony鈥檚 state premier Stanislav Tillich and his Brandenburg colleague Dietmar Woidke called for the sum to be paid over five years from 2019 to 2024 to fund 鈥渟tructural development projects that go beyond what has already been agreed鈥�, he writes. Both prime ministers emphasised that Lusatia needed to remain an industrial region after the last coal mine shut its doors. Blankennagel says planned tourism projects are unlikely to absorb the 24,000 industry jobs associated with lignite mining in Lusatia.

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See the 威力彩玩法 factsheet When will Germany finally ditch coal? for background.

The mayor of BMW hometown Munich is considering a ban on diesel cars to curb emission levels in the south German metropolis, Nina Bovensiepen writes in S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. 鈥淎s much as I鈥檇 be happy to do without this kind of bans, I don鈥檛 see how we will cope without them in the future,鈥� mayor Dieter Reiter said. Up to 170,000 cars would be affected by the ban, depending on the emissions threshold, according to the newspaper. Cars which fulfil the Euro 6 emissions norm could be exempt, Bovensiepen writes. Emissions limits in Munich are regularly exceeded, according to S眉ddeutsche Zeitung. A sweeping driving ban for diesel cars would be 鈥渁 drastic measure鈥� and the most far-reaching restriction in any major German city, Bovensiepen says.

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For background, read the factsheet Early e-car starter BMW plans new mobility sprint.