UK and Germany biggest coal polluters in the EU

Coal power plants across the EU are undermining climate change efforts, reveals the ‘Europe’s Dirty 30′ report, released today by the Climate Action Network (CAN), WWF, the European Environmental Bureau, the Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) and Climate Alliance Germany. The report exposes the top 30 most polluting power plants in the EU, ranked according … Continue reading →

EU Budget Talks Fail

Talks on the European Union’s (EU) 2013 budget collapsed on Friday as its austerity-minded member states refused to plug a funding gap of about 9 billion Euros (11.4 billion U.S. dollars) in the EU’s 2012 budget, EU’s lawmakers said. “The differences between the positions of (the European) Council and (the European) Parliament were too far … Continue reading →