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The European Parliament tonight voted to approve Miguel Arias Cañete as the new EU Commissioner for Climate and Energy in what Friends of the Earth Europe has described as a victory for polluting industry and vested interests. Members of the Parliament’s environment and industry committees voted to approve Mr Cañete’s appointment as the EU’s top …
Decision to save nuclear power open to legal challenge
The European Commission today decided that the UK’s funding of Électricité de France (EdF) to build Hinkley Point C, a nuclear power station in Somerset, was not in breach of state aid rules. This decision by the out-going Commission, just weeks before its term ends on 31 October, seemingly contradicts the Commission´s own assessments of …
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Cañete would be wrong man in wrong job
Friends of the Earth Europe is today calling on the European Parliament to reject Miguel Arias Cañete as the new EU Commissioner for Climate and Energy. The call comes ahead of a vote this evening by MEPs on the parliament’s environment and industry committees. Mr Arias Cañete has a long history of alleged conflicts of …
Don’t play geopolitics with shale gas!
This morning, Members of the European Parliament and environmental groups played the board game ‘Fracking RISK’ to highlight how shale gas fails to offer a real solution to climate change or to the EU’s growing dependency on imported natural gas. In the lead up to the ‘Global Frackdown’, an international day of action against shale …
EU paves way for climate killing tar sands
Friends of the Earth Europe has criticised a proposal announced today to regulate fuel imports to Europe because it does nothing to penalise the most polluting fuels. The European Commission today published plans to implement the ‘Fuel Quality Directive’ – a crucial piece of European climate legislation agreed five years ago which aims to reduce …
World and European leaders failing own targets to protect nature
Governments are falling short of their 2010 pledges to restore nature and ecosystems by 2020 as UN-led discussions start today in South Korea, according to new research by Friends of the Earth Europe and CEEweb for biodiversity. The meeting is close to the halfway mark to the 2020 target date, but it will reveal that …
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