German environmental organizations said on Monday that they were bringing renewed legal action against the government in relation to amended legislation on cutting greenhouse gas emissions. Greenpeace and Germanwatch said there were 54,000 plaintiffs behind the action before the Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe. They said they were also demanding steps to cut emissions from the transport sector. The government was delaying effective and socially just measures to safeguard the climate and was thereby violating freedom and equality rights under the constitution, Roda Verheyn, a lawyer acting fo…