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Investing.com -- Germany’s highest appeals court on Monday dismissed lawsuits seeking to force Mercedes-Benz and BMW to stop selling new combustion-engine vehicles starting in November 2030.
The federal court of justice in Karlsruhe upheld earlier lower court decisions against the legal action brought by three managing directors from environmental lobby group DUH.
The environmental group had built its case around a "carbon budget" it calculated for each automaker. However, the court determined that no such budget had been allocated to individual companies.
The ruling represents a setback for environmentalists who sought to use legal channels to accelerate the phase-out of traditional combustion engines at Germany’s major automakers.
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