Court ruling: Lower Saxony and NRW must better protect groundwater

The Länder of Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia have to take more ambitious measures against the nitrate pollution of groundwater in the Ems area. This follows from a ruling of the Federal Administrative Court, by which the revision of the Länder against the judgment of the Oberverwaltungsgericht (OVG) Lüneburg of November 2023 is rejected in two essential parts. The OVG had granted the action of the German Environmental Aid (DUH), support…