EU Pollution Push in Disarray as Crisis Focus Sharpens: Energy
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Europe’s program to halt climate change is in disarray, with lawmakers in the region expressing concern the drift is undermining the planet’s most significant effort to combat global warming.
Representatives of political groups in the European Parliament’s environment committee tomorrow are set to discuss dates of new votes to revive a plan the full assembly rejected. It would have boosted the cost of greenhouse-gas emissions. The rebuff left the cost of pollution near a record low, leaving companies with less incentive to reduce emissions.