"The number of industrial recipients of free carbon allowances would be nearly halved if criteria used by the EU to assess the risk of carbon leakage were brought into line with real-world data"
"... it was unclear on Tuesday whether there would be an additional stage of scrutiny before the parliamentary vote, during which time the measures could be watered down."
"The signatories of the new letter include Royal Dutch Shell, EDF Energy, General Electric, Alstom, Germany's E.ON, consumer good supplier Unilever and Statoil."