Permission to Pollute: EU rips up permit rules and funds dirty infrastructure

submitted by Beep to europe 52 points | 1 comments https://corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute cross-posted from: feddit.online/…/permission-to-pollute-eu-rips-up-… > > A new report by Corporate Europe Observatory reveals how the European Commission is taking a chainsaw to energy infrastructure permitting rules. This is part of a wider deregulatory push driven by some of Europe’s most polluting industries. Although the EU presents this agenda as the “simplification” of permitting laws, in practice, it risks eroding the hard-won social and environmental protections that underpin these rules.