Energy

Simplified EU sustainability reporting standards entered into force Tuesday, cutting mandatory datapoints by more than 60 percent and introducing additional reporting flexibility. The revised standards become mandatory for...(read more)

The "cumulative effect" of increasingly complex EU laws poses fresh challenges for the EU’s lower-tier General Court, its new president, Savvas Papasavvas, said. He stressed that the judiciary was keeping pace with expandi...(read more)

Less than a week after American voters made their opposition to data centers clear at the polls, the US Senate voted to proceed with consideration of bipartisan permitting reforms that supporters and the White House say wo...(read more)

Foreign investors in strategic EU industries would face stricter ownership and employment conditions under draft European Parliament compromise amendments seen by MLex. The text would require covered investments to meet al...(read more)

Companies would retain most of their free allowances under the EU Emissions Trading System even if they failed to carry out required decarbonization investments, under a draft compromise from Ireland, which is steering neg...(read more)

Talks on changes to the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act are provisionally scheduled to resume on Dec. 9, as national governments have yet to agree on plans for a dedicated raw materials center, MLex understands. Both membe...(read more)

Nord Stream 2 has lost its final appeal against EU gas-market rules governing pipelines linking to non-EU countries. The EU Court of Justice upheld the extension of rules to pipelines connecting member states with states n...(read more)

European Parliament lawmakers backed weaker CO2 emissions targets for new cars and vans Wednesday, partly aligning with demands from France and Germany to ease EU automotive rules. The proposals would allow certain renewab...(read more)