UK environment minister wants emissions trading extended to road travel.UK Environment Secretary David Miliband is trying to persuade the EU to extend its emissions-trading scheme used for air travel to the roads, according to according toprep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a report in the Epoch Times. If Milliband is successful, car-owners could be given a carbon allowance which they could extend by buying surplus credits from other road-users whose own emissions fall below their allocated quota. Miliband said that in order to deliver a low-carbon transport policy the EU must also extend the scheme to road-users. Contact: www.environmentalleader.com/2007/03/08/ uk-environmental-secretary-supports-carbon-quotas-for-car-owners/ (EIN EIN Employer Identification Number EIN Employee Identification Number EIN European Ideas Network (think tank) EIN Environmental Information Network EIN Equivalent Input Noise EIN Elderhostel Institute Network STAFF: 3/9) |
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