Tag: Steffi Lemke
Federal Environment Minister Lemke hesitates when it comes to hydrogen
Steffi Lemke The Federal Environment Minister has trouble with the hydrogen economy and the refinery operators. (Photo: dpa) For years, the industry has wanted to start with green hydrogen in…
Flight cancellations: Advance payment practice for airline tickets is shaky
Passengers at the Eurowings counter in Dusseldorf The airline has canceled numerous connections due to staffing problems – despite prepaid tickets. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf In view of the high number…
Flight cancellations: Advance payment practice for airline tickets is shaky
Passengers at the Eurowings counter in Dusseldorf The airline has canceled numerous connections due to staffing problems – despite prepaid tickets. (Photo: dpa) Dusseldorf In view of the high number…
Federal government wants to present strategy by 2023
drought in parks The grass has dried up in Berlin’s Volkspark Friedrichshain. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Record temperatures and little rain, that’s Germany in the summer of 2022. Federal Environment Minister…
Transport Minister Wissing tears EU requirements clearly
Volker Wissing The transport minister ranks sixth in the company car check with his Audi A8 L 60 TFSI e quattro. (Photo: Reuters) Berlin New cars in the European Union…
Steffi Lemke: Environment Minister wants to ban biofuel
biofuel The Ministry of the Environment is fundamentally critical of the climate protection effect of biofuel. This was “strongly doubted”. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (Greens) wants…
Conference of Environment Ministers speaks out in favor of a motorway speed limit
Wilhelmshaven More speed in the expansion of renewable energies and more careful use of resources – this is what the federal and state environment ministers agreed at their two-day meeting…
Out for the comeback of nuclear power
Nuclear power plant Isar 2 It’s still steaming from the cooling tower of the nuclear power plant. (Photo: imago stock&people) Munich It’s still steaming from the cooling tower of the…
Combustion car over: government confuses EU countries
electric car From 2035, only zero-emission cars will be registered in the EU. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Volker Wissing (FDP) caused new confusion at the first meeting with his European colleagues…
Conflicts are increasing in the traffic light coalition
Berlin The SPD, Greens and FDP quickly agreed on the goal. The self-proclaimed progressive coalition will make Germany fit for the digital age. “Speed in infrastructure expansion”, that’s what Volker…
These are the new and old official cars of the ministers
Dusseldorf A company car has symbolic power. With the entry of Olaf Scholz into the Chancellery, there is a new federal government and with it new official vehicles. The SPD,…
Coalition settles dispute over combustion cars
Car traffic in Berlin By 2030, manufacturers should ensure that their new car fleets emit 55 percent less CO2 than in 2021. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Berlin The dispute over the…
Coalition committee to settle dispute over combustion car
Ministers needing clarification Federal Transport Minister Volker Wissing (FDP, left) in conversation with Environment Minister Steffi Lemke (B90/Greens). (Photo: Getty Images) Berlin The dispute within the government over the end…
Environment Minister is reprimanded by the coalition partner
Steffi Lemke “Perfectly legitimate to use forms of civil disobedience as well.” (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke has not been in office long, so she is causing…
“Right to repair”: traffic light plans meet with rejection
In business, however, the project is met with rejection. At EU level, there are already guidelines for the repairability of certain products. The managing director of the German Retail Association…
Government disagrees on combustion engine off
Berlin When the European Council discusses the future of the automobile on Thursday, Germany of all places, the country with the largest car manufacturers and the largest sales market in…
Taxonomy: Lemke calls for a new procedure
Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke The Green politician’s criticism is also sparked by the Commission’s chosen path via a delegated legal act. (Photo: dpa) Berlin Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke…
Controversy over taxonomy becomes a reality check for the Greens
Vattenfall gas power plant in Berlin-Lichterfelde The federal government sees the use of gas power plants as a transitional technology. (Photo: Paul Langrock/laif) Steffi Lemke and Robert Habeck quietly and…
Federal government accepts natural gas for the transition – energy industry is relieved
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The German government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. At the same time,…
The federal government gives a clear no to nuclear power in the EU – gas as a bridging technology
Minister Habeck, Wissing, Baerbock with Chancellor Scholz Berlin The Federal Government is clearly opposed to the EU Commission classifying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source, but supports a corresponding…