July 5, 2011
Policy & Regulatory Briefing: EU Target Defeated, Yucca Mtn., Shell in Alaska
The European Parliament has today voted against raising the continent’s emissions reduction target, from the current goal of a 20 per cent cut against 1990 levels by 2020, to a 30 per cent cut by the same date.
MEPs voted 347-258 against the proposal, with 62 abstentions, Business Green reports.
A federal appellate court on Friday granted at least a temporary victory for the Obama administration, which had decided to cancel long-standing plans for a nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain, in Nevada. The court dismissed a….
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