Litigation to test EU's plan to build carbon-storage market
By Louis de Briant ( June 1, 2026, 12:21 GMT | Comment) -- Fifteen legal challenges brought by EU oil and gas producers against the bloc's Carbon Capture and Storage framework are set to test the legal foundations of a key pillar of the Net-Zero Industry Act. The cases involve companies responsible for more than 65 percent of the EU's planned CO2 storage capacity by 2030 and could shape the regulatory certainty needed to develop a European carbon-storage market.The EU courts in Luxembourg are hearing 15 legal challenges to the EU's Carbon Capture and Storage framework — brought by 12 groupings of oil and gas companies — according to a study by Bellona Europe, an NGO....
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