Inter Press Service: Polluting industries have received an early Christmas gift from European Union leaders who have agreed to weaken their proposals for fighting climate change in order to protect short-term commercial gains. Winding up a two-day summit in Brussels Dec. 12, the EU’s governments decided that a plan to make energy-intensive firms pay for their emissions of greenhouse gas emissions should be drastically amended. Under plans for revamping the EU’s Emissions Trading System put forward …