Dutch shelve billion-euro projects as EU nitrogen rules bite

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Around 18,000 building projects in the Netherlands, worth billions of euros, risk being shelved due to a recent court order on nitrogen emissions, the Dutch government said on Friday.The country's highest court in May ruled that the way Dutch builders and farmers dealt with nitrogen emissions was in breach with European laws.This has already caused delays in work on new highways, housing blocks, airports, wind farms and a range of other vital infrastructure in recent..