Austria challenges EU over clean energy decision

Controversy surrounding the inclusion of gas and nuclear in the bloc’s green rulebook from the start of next year is likely to rumble on, with a number of challenges to the decision

Austria filed a challenge against the EU’s decision to declare nuclear power and natural gas as clean energies.

Austria, one of the continent’s starkest opponents of nuclear power, filed a challenge against the EU’s decision to declare the fuel and natural gas as clean energies.

The country filed the suit over the EU’s new classification system known as taxonomy on Friday at the European Court of Justice, according to energy minister Leonore Gewessler.