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Big Ol' Jet Air Whiner
Plan to regulate airline emissions moves forward in E.U. |
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21 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 4:26 PM on 21 Dec 2007 A proposed law that would regulate emissions from airlines taking off from or landing in the European Union has been approved by environment ministers. The bill to include airlines in the E.U.'s carbon-trading scheme was scaled back from the version passed by the E.U. Parliament last month, aiming to start in 2012 instead of 2011 and making airlines buy only 10 percent of their carbo ... |
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| Topics: air travel, business, carbon trading, climate, climate change mitigation, European Union, greenhouse-gas emissions, legislation, news, politics (all these topics) |
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