A City in Germany Pledges to Clean Up Its Air With Fossil-Free Plan
Angela Merkel won’t put a sell-by date on combustion-engine cars in the homeland of VW, Mercedes-Benz and BMW. Heidelberg, a mid-size medieval city in Germany’s southwest, is moving ahead anyway, with far-reaching plans to clean up its air. The university and industrial town of some 150,000 inhabitants will buy only exhaust-free municipal buses starting in 2025 and will ensure that a major part of its urban area is zero-emissions by 2030, Mayor Eckart Wuerzner said Tuesday in a statement.