Energy

Compromises reportedly have yet to be agreed on the main political questions in the European Parliament's review of the proposed EU Industrial Accelerator Act, despite a Dec. 1 committee vote now only three weeks away. Ger...(read more)

A coalition of Democratic attorneys general is pressing US Senate leaders to amend permitting overhaul legislation, warning it would weaken environmental protections and undermine state and tribal authority. Supporters say...(read more)

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)