EU Delays Methane Rules One Year Citing Iran War Energy Disruption
🇪🇺 BRUSSELS — A climate rule delay framed as war emergency sets a precedent Brussels can't unset. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Suspending methane standards under war cover hands fossil fuel lobbies a replicable template: any supply crisis becomes grounds for regulatory rollback. With Brent at $99 and Hormuz at 2 transits daily, the political logic is defensible — but the mechanism is permanent. Watch which other environmental commitments get quietly queued behind it.
