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EU energy ministers will extend subsidies for fossil fuels – stranding EU’s climate objectives Europe’s energy ministers have decided to extend subsidies for fossil gas in today’s approval of the Energy Council’s position for the revision of the energy infrastructure legislation (TEN-E) – a move highly criticised by climate groups and not in line with …
EU energy ministers fail to end fossil gas subsidiesRead more
Updated proposals to revise EU energy infrastructure legislation are set to give an obscure body representing the gas industry power over Europe’s energy future. The European Commission proposals to reform the trans-European energy infrastructure (TEN-E) regulation give too much control to gas companies. This briefing argues it’s time to cut fossil fuels out of our …
Gas industry lobbyists are expected to retain a stranglehold on Europe’s energy future, a new analysis of European Commission policy proposals reveals today.
Under the guise of the Covid-19 pandemic, which has seen fossil fuel interests capture tens of billions of public recovery money, new research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a massive lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes across Europe, and weaken environmental standards and the European …
Revealed: How the fossil fuel industry used Covid-19 to derail the EU green dealRead more
New research by the Fossil Free Politics campaign reveals a concerted lobbying effort by the fossil fuel industry during Covid-19 to win concessions for climate-damaging energy schemes, gain access to bailout funds, and weaken environmental standards. This is undermining climate action, the EU Green Deal and green recovery. Bailing out fossil fuels is giving a …
A critical flaw in the design of an EU law on energy infrastructure has helped the fossil fuel industry pocket over €1 billion in EU taxpayer funds for gas projects, Friends of the Earth Europe and Food & Water Action Europe analysis shows. The analysis comes as a majority of MEPs are set to vote …
Flaw in EU energy law helped gas industry pocket €1 billion of taxpayer fundsRead more
