EU Parliament clash delays key climate legislation
STRASBOURG — Brussels’ efforts to fight climate change hit a roadblock in the European Parliament on Wednesday.
Months of careful compromise-building came crashing down in a dramatic series of plenary votes, when left-wing lawmakers rejected a proposal for reforming the EU’s carbon market rather than see it watered down, forming an unexpected majority with the far-right.
MEPs then referred the reform and two related texts back to committee to hammer out a new agreement.