Ripping up EU permitting rules isn't abstract. Materially, it makes it even harder to:
🚧 Stop new pipelines
⛰️ Block new mines
🖥️ Reject new data centres
💧 Resists new mega-basins
🛫 Refuse new airports
EU+industry are taking away our tools to fight damaging new infrastructure.
#Permission2Pollute
@corporateeurope.org🚨 NEW REPORT: EU handing industry #Permission2Pollute 🚨
At the request of oil&gas, mining + BigTech lobbyists, the Commission is ripping up permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects like pipelines, mines + data centres.
Read more corporateeurope.org/en/2026/05/permission-pollute 👇
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Permission to Pollute | Corporate Europe Observatory
New report on how the European Commission is weakening permitting rules to fast-track polluting projects, such as mines, CO2 pipelines and data centres.