Germany misses deadline to update legislation with new EU power plant emissions limits
Deutschlandfunk
NGOs and Green Party politicians have criticised the environment ministry for failing to meet the deadline to adopt stricter EU limits on pollution from power plants into national law, Benjamin Dierks reports for Deutschlandfunk. Germany was among the countries that opposed the new standards on nitrogen oxides, mercury and particulate matter, which the EU officially published on 17 August 2017. Power-plant operators have four years from that date to comply with the new limits, but according to German immissions law, they should be incorporated into national law within a year to give operators time to retrofit power plants, Deutschlandfunk says.
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