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EU scraps plan to label tar sands oil as highly polluting

2014-10-07 13:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: The European Commission on Tuesday proposed scrapping a mandatory requirement to label tar sands oil as highly polluting after years of industry opposition. The new proposal abandons one obstacle to Canada shipping crude from tar sands to Europe and is likely to draw strong criticism from environmental campaigners and Green politicians. It is suggested in a revised draft law on how refiners report the carbon intensity of the fuel they supply. The debate about labelling tar sands, also known...

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