Energy

In a bid to retain more aluminum scrap in the EU, officials recently abandoned the idea of export duties under trade rules in favor of export bans under waste legislation, where permission depends on how waste... (more story)

Agribusinesses and investors face continued uncertainty over global drought rules, after UN land talks in Mongolia in August pushed a decision on the issue to the next conference in 2028, exposing how geopolit... (more story)

The EU's maritime Emissions Trading System review seeks to make shipping cleaner without pushing activity away from European ports, but its design may pull those goals in opposite directions. Industry and envi... (more story)

Climate litigation is increasingly defining governments' and companies' obligations as climate science and legal precedents develop. While landmark cases have helped entrench the duties that states have and pr... (more story)

Amid an AI-fueled boom in data center construction, lawmakers in more than a dozen US states introduced legislation to prohibit state agencies and local governments from entering into nondisclosure agreements ... (more story)

The European Commission has proposed expanding the EU aviation carbon market to cover more departing flights — starting in 2029 — while limiting its reach to avoid backlash from the US and China, which strongl... (more story)

The continued absence of the nuclear sector from EU sanctions on Russia reflects deep supply-chain dependencies, extending beyond fuel for Soviet-designed reactors to conversion and enrichment services. While ... (more story)

The European Commission's overhaul of the EU Emissions Trading System preserves the bloc's 2050 climate-neutrality objective, according to think tanks. But they warn that extensive delegated powers, delayed in... (more story)