While European leaders debate a climate neutral EU by 2050, an obscure EU fund is being used to pay the wages of coal lobbyists and promote coal use in developing countries like India and China. Documents obtained under access to information laws as part of a META investigation reveal how EU money from the European Commission’s ‘Research Fund for Coal and Steel’ is being used to pay the wages of staff at Euracoal, the European coal industry’s lobbying group in Brussels. … Continue reading REVEALED: EU fund paying coal lobbyists’ wages