| 09.03.2016 - German plan for extra carbon credits against EU law -court adviser |
| A German proposal to get extra free carbon permits to help four energy-intensive industries ran counter to European Union law, an adviser to the bloc's highest court said on Tuesday. In a case that tested the bounds of Brussels' authority to impose environmental regulation, the European Commission had refused to grant the German factories the free credits to pollute under a domestic "hardship clause"...............................................Full Article: Source |