The government wanted to abolish the “Heating Act” and is now presenting key points for a new set of regulations. But it poses many problems – for the climate and for citizens.
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Jens Spahn allows himself a single welcome sentence this evening (“Thank you for your interest”), and then he gets to his central message: “We are abolishing Habeck’s heating law.”
The CDU parliamentary group leader was in such a hurry that he invited people to a press conference with just 26 minutes’ notice – together with SPD parliamentary group deputy Matthias Miersch and the CSU regional group leader in the Bundestag, Alexander Hoffmann. Black-red announced the end of one, if not the most controversial project of the previous government: the amendment to the Building Energy Act, better known as the so-called Heating law.
