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Dear reader,Summertime is just the right time to quench your thirst with healthy, eco-friendly, and inexpensive tap water. To ensure it stays that way, UBA is drawing attention to a pressing problem – the contamination of our groundwater with nitrate from intensive agricultural practices. Read more about the matter in this newsletter.We would also like to recommend – hot off the press – our annual... read more

Dear reader, It is not a matter of just a few vehicle types and their emissions. In fact, Euro 6 diesel cars in general exceed the limit for nitrogen oxide emissions by multiple times. And yet, they still benefit from subsidies for diesel fuel worth billions. And from our perspective, it is also wrong in terms of climate protection. Read more about this in the latest issue of “UBA aktuell”.Ou... read more

Dear reader, Germany has accomplished quite a bit when it comes to protecting the climate – something which unfortunately cannot be said about the transport sector. The sector is at a standstill, its 2016 emissions even 2 million tons higher than in 1990. So what is the remedy? A phase-out of environmentally harmful subsidies for the transport sector, which currently benefits from 28 billion... read more

Dear reader,Germany spent the lordly sum of 57 billion euros on environmentally harmful subsidies in 2012, for example in the coal and lignite industries. These funds can be put to better use in future. Read more about it in the new issue of the “UBA aktuell” Newsletter.In close connection with this issue we are also issuing recommendations for the urgently needed turnaround in agricultural policy... read more