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Backed by Greenpeace, farmer sues VW over climate change

File---File photo shows cars ready for handing over inside one of in total two 'car towers' at the Volkswagen car factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, Monday, Nov. 8, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, file)

Ulf Allhoff-Cramer, farmer, stands in a rye field in front of his tractor in Detmold, Germany, Wedenesday, May 18, 2022. The organic farmer holds the VW car company partly responsible for damage to his farm. Together with Greenpeace, he wants to go to court to get VW to stop producing combustion vehicles by 2030. (Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP)

Ulf Allhoff-Cramer, farmer, sits in a pasture next to one of his cows in Detmold, Germany, Wedenesday, May 18, 2022. The organic farmer holds the VW car company partly responsible for damage to his farm. Together with Greenpeace, he wants to go to court to get VW to stop producing combustion vehicles by 2030. (Lino Mirgeler/dpa via AP)

Backed by Greenpeace, farmer sues VW over climate change