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All rights reserved. Credit: Nicolas Chauveau / Greenpeace Activists from Greenpeace France hang a banner at the Paris Motorshow The clock is ticking. From today we have a chance to influence the final EU law that could force car companies to produce greener cars. This afternoon, Lord De Mauley from the UK Department for Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) is meeting with environment ministers from across Europe to discuss a set of rules that could make a big difference in protecting our planet. And he could be a champion to making that happen. But German carmakers have been trying to trick EU politicians, by saying that the EU’s proposal would force them to make more…