Reuters: Eastern European states could receive billions of euros in funding to secure their support on Friday for an EU plan to fight climate change, but environmental groups said the deal was a sell-out to industry. The European Union hopes to clinch a historic deal on Friday to cut carbon dioxide by a fifth by 2020 — the biggest step worldwide to avert global warming — but member states facing an economic crisis have won a myriad of exemptions. “This is a flagship EU policy with no …