Italy is once again challenging the EU's green transition, pushing for an overhaul of the bloc's carbon trading scheme and changing the way the tool operates to try to cut electricity bills.
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni called Thursday for the European Union's Emissions Trading System (ETS) -- which obliges heavy polluters to buy permits -- to be suspended pending a reform.
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