{"id":209366,"date":"2026-05-12T12:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/european-commission-faces-backlash-over-plans-to-fast-track-polluting-projects\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T12:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T12:49:08","slug":"european-commission-faces-backlash-over-plans-to-fast-track-polluting-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/european-commission-faces-backlash-over-plans-to-fast-track-polluting-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission faces backlash over plans to fast-track polluting projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Corporate Europe Observatory report, proposed EU legislation would speed up approval processes for projects labelled as \u201cstrategic\u201d or of \u201coverriding public interest,\u201d which could in some cases allow them to bypass standard environmental review requirements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2026\/05\/12\/european-commission-faces-backlash-over-plans-to-fast-track-polluting-projects\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Corporate Europe Observatory report, proposed EU legislation would speed up approval processes for projects labelled as \u201cstrategic\u201d or of \u201coverriding public interest,\u201d which could in some cases allow them to bypass standard environmental review requirements. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":209367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}