Germans tighten car exhaust rules
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Three German cities now make drivers display stickers to show their cars meet emission standards.
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BERLIN -- A European Union official called on Germany to give up the famous freedom of its highways and impose speed limits on the autobahn to fight global warming -- a demand that drew angry responses yesterday in a country that cherishes what it calls "free driving for free citizens."
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The Environmental Protection Agency issued rules yesterday that will dramatically cut toxic fumes from cars and trucks over the next 25 years.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday her government would not try to introduce a speed limit on freeways, despite a proposal from her coalition's junior party.Many stretches of Germany's famed freeways, the autobahn, have no speed limits _ traditionally a cherished freedom in a rule-bound country.Members of the center-left Social Democratic Party, who along with Merkel's conservative Christian Democratic Union make up the governing coalition, backed a proposal over the weekend to introduce a general speed limit of 80 mph on the autobahn. Read more
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Car makers will show off their latest  efforts to fight pollution at Frankfurt&#39;s autoshow next week by  unveiling models with improvements rather than substitutes to  the standard internal combustion engine.
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California air-quality regulators have adopted the nation&#39;s first-ever rules to reduce car emissions linked to global warming, an action likely to prompt tough
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In getting European automakers to adhere to new limits on carbon dioxide emissions, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany will have to take on the industry at home.
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Hundreds of European cities and towns restricted auto traffic Wednesday, part of the continent's annual campaign to lower air pollution by encouraging commuters to use public transportation, bicycles or their ...
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Famed for engineering prowess, the German auto industry is also rife with rivalries and internecine politics.
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FRANKFURT, Germany -- The European Union's highest court struck down a German law shielding Volkswagen AG from hostile takeovers, clearing a path for Porsche AG to increase its influence _ and possibly even take control _ at Europe's biggest automaker.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that she was opposed to an EU legally-binding limit on cars' average carbon dioxide emissions as part of the EU efforts to cut average emissions for new cars.Comment
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The German government presented a new "VW law" Wednesday that would preserve workers' rights to veto plant construction and relocations.
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Germany is in an uproar as the Social Democrats suggest putting a limit on how fast cars can go on the limitless autobahn
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Germany's carmakers are looking to  join forces to push clean diesels in the U.S. market with the  Bluetec technology developed by Mercedes-Benz (DCXGn.DE) and  diesel injection system specialist Bosch .
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Germany, with its high costs, reluctant consumers and restive auto workers, has become a major drag on the country's two largest carmakers, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen , which both reported mixed earnings on ...
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Germans love their fast cars, but they also love nature, and their country is setting a bar for the world in developing the technologies to replace oil.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated Thursday the Frankfurt motor show, with what was billed as the world&#39;s biggest collecton of cars and parts placed squarely under the theme of environmental protection.