German Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is slated to agree late Monday how to clean up city air polluted by diesel exhaust and who will foot the bill, after protracted wrestling with the powerful car industry. Three years have passed since Volkswagen's 2015 admission to installing cheating devices in 11 million vehicles worldwide, allowing them to secretly spew far more harmful nitrogen oxide (NOx) than legally permitted. Since then, other carmakers like BMW and Daimler have been targeted in official probes, while courts have opened the way for cities to ban the dirtiest diesels to meet EU air quality targets, in some cases even ordering them to do so.
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