Britain has won a legal battle against the European Commission over greenhouse gas emissions, with the highest EU court declaring on Wednesday that vetoing the British request to increase greenhouse gas emission was inadmissible.
The verdict relates to the EU's so-called emissions trading scheme, under which every member state has been assigned a quota of greenhouse emission rights which can be traded between companies.
The British government challenged the commission's rejection...
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