Environmental Groups Applaud EU Warning on Protecting Nature as Renewables are Deployed
Several environmental groups have praised the European Commission's recently released guidelines on how governments can use impact assessments to ensure that green-energy deployments do not harm the environment. The guidelines underscore the need for robust assessments of the potential environmental impact of green-energy infrastructure such as solar arrays and wind turbines as the regional bloc strives to rid itself of its dependence on Russian energy exports. Hastily written in response to the energy crisis that followed the Russia-Ukraine war in early 2022, the RePowerEU plan promised to address one of the most significant bottlenecks in the wind energy generation segment,…
