Legal threat over UK retreat on greenhouse gases

David Gow in Brussels and Mark Milner
Tuesday February 15, 2005
The Guardian

The government and the European commission clashed head on yesterday over Britain’s plans to allow industry to emit higher than approved levels of greenhouse gases in a row which threatened to undermine Tony Blair’s claim for leadership in combating global warming.
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The row comes at an embarrassing time for the government. The prime minister has made the fight against climate change the priority of the UK’s chairmanship of the G8 and the EU (from the second half of this year) but is in danger of seeing British policy in tatters and UK participation in the EU’s key emissions trading scheme delayed for years.

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