EU designs truck of future to save lives, fuel
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European trucks of the future should have longer, rounded, more aerodynamic cabs to save fuel and cut down on accidents, and adopt some innovations already on the...
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EU politicians back narrow loopholes in clean car law
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU politicians backed a compromise on Tuesday that would give carmakers limited leeway in the race to cut CO2 emissions in line with targets while rejecting German...
Nobel Prize winners urge Obama to back carbon pricing
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A group of leading economists, including eight Nobel Prize winners, has written to President Barack Obama urging him to support a carbon price on aviation. An EU...
Actor Jeremy Irons talks trash with EU bureaucrats
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - British actor Jeremy Irons hates waste with a passion - so much so that he overcame his natural dislike of regulation to team up with the EU...
EU lawmakers back suspension of airline carbon payments
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union lawmakers on Tuesday backed a Commission plan to suspend for a year a law that would make all airlines using EU airports pay for their...
EU parliament hesitates in drafting law for CO2 fix
BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - European lawmakers backed an emergency plan to save the world's biggest market for carbon allowances from collapse on Tuesday, but put off drafting the necessary legislation, sending...
German car plans would breach EU carbon goal: Commission paper
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - German proposals to protect its output of big, luxury cars threaten EU plans to limit carbon emissions by 2020 and could jeopardize future ambitions, a document from...
Travel Postcard: 48 hours at the top of Europe
INTERLAKEN, Switzerland (Reuters) - The Virgin, the Monk, and the Ogre — in German, the Jungfrau, the Moench and the Eiger — are three classic Swiss mountains that for centuries...
EU carbon law hands airlines a windfall: study
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Airlines could have already made up to 1.36 billion euros ($1.9 billion) in windfall profits from an EU law that forces them to pay for carbon emissions,...
European politicians brace for clash on car CO2 law
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union politicians are sharply divided between those keen for ambitious green car standards they say are needed to keep up with U.S. goals and those trying...