The action was repeated in 2016 at another lignite mine in Germany (in Lusatia, near Berlin), this time against Vattenfall and the Czech company EPH  which has acquired this asset on the 30th of September 2016. The activists wrote that for  decades,"Vattenfall has been destroying the region Lusatia in Eastern Germany to make money with coal ... EPH, too, has only one goal: Making money as quickly as possible. They want to continue the lignite mining business as long as they can, tearing down more villages. The money will disappear into dubious offshore company constructions instead of reserves; and very soon, once the lignite business is really not profitable any more, EPH will shirk any responsibility – and leave behind a destroyed region without facing its liabilities. Whether Vattenfall or EPH: investing in lignite mining means continuing a socially and ecologically devastating economic system. The community will have to pay for a “renaturalization” of the open cast pits; workers will be abandoned. Meanwhile, more CO2 is emitted, which further fuels catastrophic climate change". A demonstration and blockade was announced for Pentecost 2016. And the movement Ende Gelände went to Lusatia with nearly 4000 people to block lignite mining infrastructure. The movement sees itself as part of a world-wide uprising against extractivism.

Between the 4th and the 15th of May 2016 people from five continents carried out disruptive actions of civil disobedience against the infrastructure of the climate catastrophe. "Together we will show that the time has come to “Break Free from Fossil Fuels”".

In January 2023 the final evictions of Lützerath village for the expansion of the Garzweiler lignite mine took place. Following over a decade of resettlements of original citizens, environmental activists had been the ones occupying the remaining buildings, treehouses and fields in a struggle against RWE mining company. Organisers state that around 35,000 took part in the resistance [2] against special police units. By day 16, only 2 protesters remained, hiding out in a tunnel hidden underneath the village [3]. Campaigns such as Lützerath Lebt continue their efforts in campaigning to keep coal in the ground via their social media platforms. [see: https://www.instagram.com/luetzibleibt/?hl=en ]

In Lusatia (Lausitz), billions of tons of brown coal lie buried underneath a gentle landscape of pine forests, farm fields, and rural villages about 160 km south of Berlin, in what was once East Germany. In the past century, the landscape has been scarred and pitted by strip mines. In all, 136 villages in the Lausitz region have been destroyed to make way for massive strip mines since 1934. Most of the destruction took place after World War II, when the East German government depended on brown coal to power its cities and factories. Pollution from the mines and from primitive, dirty, coal-fired power plants was a major issue for the democracy activists whose efforts eventually helped topple the Berlin Wall. When Germany was reunified in 1989, many of the outdated plants were shut down, and locals thought the era of forced resettlement was over. But brown call has made a comeback,

Lignite being Germany’s most important domestic energy source, such assets risks to become "stranded" assets with no financial value if burning of lignite is banned because of local opposition (entire villages are swallowed up by the open pit mines) and because of the need to prevent climate change by "keeping coal in the hole". Peaceful direct actions have taken place in 2015 and 2016 at big lignite mines in the Rhineland and in Lusatia (Lausitz), stopping operation for a few hours/days. Vattenfall's power stations in Germany had a capacity of more than 8,000 megawatts. Vattenfall in 2016 was trying to sell off its lignite mines in Lusatia (escaping also its liabilities) to EPH, from the Czech Republic. Vattenfall wanted to sell for 2 to 3 billion €, but finally had to pay EPH 1,7 billion for EPH taking over the socio-environmental liabilities in the region.

In both sites together (Rhineland and Lusatia) the directly affected population reaches about 30,000.