{"id":2991,"date":"2025-07-30T04:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/07\/eu-bowing-to-trump-pressure-by-agreeing-to-more-risky-polluting-oil-and-gas-imports\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:05:23","slug":"eu-bowing-to-trump-pressure-by-agreeing-to-more-risky-polluting-oil-and-gas-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2991","title":{"rendered":"EU Bowing to Trump Pressure by Agreeing to More Risky, Polluting Oil and Gas Imports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The EU and the U.S. have announced a new trade deal, ending months of a stand-off over tariffs. Under the new deal, the EU has given in to pressure from the Trump Administration to buy $750 billion worth of oil, gas and other energy products from the U.S. over the next three years in exchange for tariff relief.<\/p>\n

Laurie van der Burg, Oil Change International Global Public Finance Manager, said: <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe EU has just fallen into another dangerous fossil fuel dependency trap. Spending $250 billion a year on U.S. energy purchases, mostly oil and gas, is not just a bad deal for energy security, affordability, the climate and communities, it is also completely unnecessary. Even as it moves away from Russian LNG, the EU\u2019s current gas supply contracts are sufficient to meet declining demand under the EU\u2019s own Fitfor55 climate policies package.<\/p>\n

\u201cIncreasing Europe\u2019s imports of U.S. LNG is a disaster for our climate. Our recent analysis<\/a> of five planned U.S. LNG projects finds that every one would worsen the climate crisis, and that further investment in U.S. LNG is incompatible with a liveable climate.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver 70,000 people signed a petition<\/a> asking the EU to not just end reliance on Russian gas, but also break free from U.S. gas and double down on a fair and green future instead. Instead of pouring billions into an untrustworthy regime and investing in energy products that poison communities\u2019 air and water and risks the habitability of our climate, the EU should use that money on renewables, energy efficiency programs, and paying the climate finance it owes to the Global South.\u201d<\/p>\n

Enrico Donda, Campaigner at Food and Water Action Europe, said:<\/strong> <\/p>\n

“As part of yesterday\u2019s EU-U.S. trade deal, the EU has pledged $750 billion, over three years, to, among other things, increase energy imports\u2014even though gas demand is actually falling across Europe and this move contradicts its own climate commitments under the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the deal is presented as a way to enhance energy security and reduce reliance on Russian fossil fuels, it effectively locks Europe into decades of continued gas dependency. At a time when we should be ramping up renewables, improving energy efficiency, and cutting gas use, the EU is instead pouring billions into fossil fuel infrastructure that risks becoming stranded assets. This feels like a concession to fossil fuel interests and short-term politics. What we truly need is to phase out fossil gas now.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU and the U.S. have announced a new trade deal, ending months of a stand-off over tariffs. Under the new deal, the EU has given in to pressure from the Trump Administration to buy $750 billion worth of oil, gas and other energy products from the U.S. over the next three years in exchange […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}