Denmark Pushes Through First-Ever EU Energy Efficiency Law

Denmark Pushes Through First-Ever EU Energy Efficiency Law: With the clock running out on its EU presidency, Denmark achieved on June 13 one of the chief aims of its six months in control of the European agenda. Negotiators from the Danish presidency, the European Commission, and the European Parliament agreed to the EU?s first-ever energy efficiency law, a package of measures estimated to reduce the bloc?s energy consumption by 17% by 2020.