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The German government appears to have abandoned the planned carbon tax on coal power plants. This is the result of a meeting of German Economics Minister Sigmar Gabriel (SPD) with the head of the mining union IG BCE, Michael Vassiliadis, and ministers of those states where lignite is produced. The ministry's original plan was to avoid emitting additional 22 million tons of CO2 by 2020. This plan was opposed by trade unions and energy companies who saw this as an existential threat to Germany's entire lignite production. These interest groups seem to have won the battle for now. --Der Spiegel, 7 June 2015https://climatechangedispatch.com/wp-content/uploads/images_pics8_kohle-sigmar-gabriel-berlin-demos-540x304.jpg