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Europe’s conservatives have 2 new targets in their campaign to weaken EU climate laws

Summary by Politico Europe
The EPP is taking aim at a new carbon price on driving and heating, and rules on methane emissions.

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The European People's Party is pushing for a three-year postponement of methane rules and the abolition or postponement of the ETS2 emissions trading system for transport and heating.

·Ljubljana, Slovenia
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The Polish member of the European Parliament, Adam Yarubas, and his fellow European People's Party, are seeking the repeal or transfer of the ETS2 carbon tax and the three-year postponement of the new methane emission regulations, and the European People's Party's Centrist-Rights MPs have stepped up their campaign to weaken the EU's two key climate laws – the new ETS2 carbon tax on transport and heating and methane emission standards – are trans…

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The PPE is pushing the vote this week to delay the methane rules for three years and adds nine delegations, including the Spanish delegation, to repeal the ETS2.The entry The PPE is stepping up its offensive against climate laws: it delays methane for three years and slows down the ETS2 first appears in Moncloa.

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Right-wing MEPs are stepping up efforts to weaken two EU climate laws, a campaign that threatens to undermine the bloc's efforts to reduce planet-warming emissions.

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Politico Europe broke the news in Brussels, Belgium on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
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