By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Poland has filed legal challenges attempting to annul three of the European Union's main climate change policies, ...
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The legal actions, brought by Warsaw to the EU Court of Justice in July, target policies including a law agreed this year which will ban the sale of new CO2-emitting cars in the EU from 2035. A second EU policy setting national emissions-cutting targets"threatens Poland's energy security", while a third law to reform the EU carbon market may reduce coal mining jobs and increase social inequality, Poland said.The government wants all three laws annulled. Each was passed by a reinforced majority of EU member states, but Poland said they should have been passed with unanimous approval given the impact they could have on countries' energy mixes.
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