BRUSSELS — EU climate boss Teresa Ribera fought a running battle inside the European Commission over recent days to try to salvage an effort to stamp out corporate greenwashing.
Ribera, an executive vice president who oversees much of the EU’s environmental policy, pressed Environment Commissioner Jessika Roswall not to kill off the proposed law, according to an EU official and another in the European Parliament.
She succeeded — but too late.
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Ribera’s rearguard effort began last week after the center-right European People’s Party (EPP), by far the largest group in the European Parliament, vowed to block the law in the legislature.
