Guiding Europe toward clean energy

New York Times: Three years ago, Germany lobbied hard to appoint one of its own nationals to the post of E.U. energy commissioner, a move partly designed to quell anxiety among giant German utilities about the Union's environment and climate agenda. Germany's choice was Günther Oettinger, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right party and the governor of Baden-Württemberg, a state that used nuclear power to generate nearly half its electricity before shutting two of its four reactors last year following...

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