Frankfurt, Germany's financial center, must ban highly-polluting, older diesel vehicles from the city center from next February as part of a plan to improve air quality, the country's administrative court ruled on Wednesday.
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency has consistently ignored recommendations from the Department of Energy to reject or limit waivers to oil refiners seeking exemptions from nation's biofuels law, according to five sources familiar with the matter.
The Environmental Protection Agency has exempted one of the nation's largest oil refining companies, Andeavor , from complying with U.S. biofuels regulations - a waiver historically reserved for tiny operations in danger of going belly up, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
