Nuremberg (dpa / lby) – The German Environmental Aid (DUH) and the city of Nuremberg have agreed on a comparison in the dispute over clean air. The city announced on Friday. City council will vote on it next week. With this comparison, the city of Nuremberg has made a permanent commitment to taking appropriate steps to comply with the currently applicable limit value for the diesel exhaust poison nitrogen dioxide (NO2), the DUH also wrote on Friday.
The DUH filed a lawsuit in June 2019 because the limit value for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in the clean air plan of the city of Nuremberg had not been complied with at one of several measuring stations in the city area. The lawsuit was first directed against the Free State of Bavaria. But on June 1, 2021, he transferred responsibility for the clean air plan in the municipalities with more than 100,000 inhabitants to the cities themselves. The city of Nuremberg became the defendant, it said.
The city of Nuremberg and the DUH agree that the nitrogen dioxide pollution in Nuremberg should be reduced and that the immission limit value for NO2 should be complied with in the entire city area in the future.
According to Mayor Marcus König (CSU), the second largest city in Bavaria has concrete plans to reduce car traffic in the city – and to make public transport, cycling and walking in the city “more attractive”. König went on to say: “We are well positioned with this, because less traffic also means less air pollution. The measures also make a driving ban or closures superfluous.”
