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MEPs aim to stick airlines with steeper carbon bill
Lawmakers in the European Parliament’s environment committee have voted to include all flights departing from Europe in the EU’s carbon market and to slash free allowances, a move that will force airlines to pay more to pollute.
Brussels in balancing act to gain EU support for battery regulation
The European Commission’s proposed battery regulation was alternatively branded too ambitious or too restricting at a meeting of EU environment ministers Thursday (11 June), highlighting the gap between the 27 member states on the issue.
EU Commission clashes with Parliament over ‘net’ 2030 climate target
Lawmakers have denounced a “loophole” in the European Commission's proposed climate target for 2030 and pointed the finger at the EU executive for its hard negotiation style over the EU climate law.
MEPs back natural gas as a ‘bridge’ to 100% renewable hydrogen
Gas should be used as a bridging solution to produce hydrogen before green varieties made from renewable electricity become commercially available, according to a motion adopted in the European Parliament's environment committee.
EU lawmakers raise concerns about UK ‘regression’ on pesticides
Lawmakers in the European Parliament raised concerns about possible UK regression on pesticides and gene editing at a meeting on the new EU-UK trade agreement on Thursday (14 January).
EU lawmakers set to open door for recovery funds to support fossil gas
On Monday (9 November), MEPs in the economic affairs and budgetary committees will vote on the EU's recovery fund package, but the ban on spending funds on fossil fuels, suggested by the environment committee, will not be in the final agreement.
UN rejects EU request to attend green aviation meeting
EXCLUSIVE / The United Nations’ agency for aviation, the ICAO, has snubbed a request by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker to allow MEPs to sit in on a crunch meeting to reduce the industry’s contribution to climate change.
MEPs debate saved air rules before Circular Economy inquest
Members of the European Parliament yesterday (21 January) debated air pollution rules for the first time since the laws narrowly escaped being axed by the EU’s executive arm.
What a good resolution to the biofuels reform would look like
?The best way to promote advanced biofuels is to correctly account for indirect land use change (ILUC), writes Nusa Urbancic. VideoPromoted content
EPEE’s Andrea Voigt ‘disappointed’ over EP vote on F-gases ban
EPEE's director general Andrea Voigt expressed her concern on Wednesday over the European Parliament's decision to back a sweeping ban on the use in refrigerators and air conditioners of fluorinated gases. The so called F-gases are greenhouse gases that are many thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide in warming up the earth's atmosphere. VideoPromoted content
EPEE’s Andrea Voigt ‘disappointed’ over EP vote on F-gases ban
European Partnership for Energy and the Environment Director general Andrea Voigt expressed her concern on Wednesday after the European Parliament's Environment Committee backed a sweeping ban on the use in refrigerators and air conditioners of fluorinated gases. The so-called F-gases are greenhouse gases that are many thousands of times more damaging than carbon dioxide in warming up the earth's atmosphere -