Gas industry lobbyists have stepped up meetings with European Union policymakers amid a political tussle on whether to badge the fuel as sustainable, analysis from campaign group Reclaim Finance showed. Gas-related lobbyists held 323 meetings between January 2020 and May 2021, the NGO said in a report, citing European Union Transparency Register data, up from 295 meetings in January 2018 to July 2020 period. That equates to a jump in meetings from 9.5 a month to 19 meetings a month, the NGO said. The increase comes as several governments and companies battle to include gas in the bloc’s landmark list of activities that can be considered sustainable. While excluding gas from the coveted label would not prevent gas producers from […]