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Wolfram Günther (Alliance 90/The Greens), Environment Minister of Saxony / Photo: Jan Woitas/dpa

Cabinet: New funding program for remediation of contaminated sites

The Saxon cabinet has launched a new funding program for the remediation of contaminated sites. Specifically, it concerns contaminated soil and groundwater. "Saxony has been an industrial state for generations. In the past, this has unfortunately caused enormous damage to soil and groundwater on tho ..

The industrial estate of the former Rositz tar processing plant / Photo: Bodo Schackow/dpa

No decision on environmental damage caused by former GDR companies

A funding dispute between the federal government and the states of Saxony and Thuringia regarding the costs of cleaning up environmental damage caused by former GDR state-owned companies remains unresolved at the Federal Constitutional Court. The highest German court rejected applications by the two ..