BRUSSELS—Around 100 European Union lawmakers asked Brussels on Wednesday to withdraw plans to label energy investments in gas as green, saying this undermined Europe’s push to reduce reliance on Russian fossil fuels. Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, EU countries and lawmakers were divided over the European Commission’s plan to label gas and nuclear investments as “green” in the bloc’s sustainable finance taxonomy, a rulebook for the classification of investments designed to help the EU meet its climate change goals. The invasion, which Russia calls a “special military operation” to demilitarize Ukraine, has prompted the EU to overhaul its energy priorities and seek to end this decade its dependence on Russia, which provides around 40 percent of the EU’s gas. “We welcome your plan to make Europe independent from Russian fossil fuels. This stands in stark contrast with the proposal to incentivise investments in fossil gas through the Taxonomy Regulation,” said …