European airlines may risk an embargo from India's airspace, should Brussels impose sanctions on Indian carriers over carbon emissions. Brussels is facing the heat from several nations, including China, Russia, over an EU carbon emissions trading scheme that called for charging airlines over pollution. full story ![]()
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The largest U.S. manufacturers' association on Tuesday warned that a potential tax on carbon emissions to fight global warming would cut factory output and could hurt the U.S. economy in other ways.
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OPPOSITION environment spokesman Greg Hunt says Labor needs to admit its carbon tax regime is in chaos because the price of emissions is falling.
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By Allison Martell (Reuters) - Hope is fading for a global deal to regulate the airline industry's greenhouse gas emissions ahead of a fall deadline, even though failure could push the industry back to the brink of a trade war over the European Union's emissions trading system. Last November the EU suspended its controversial scheme to force all airlines to buy carbon...
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China may soon get its very own tax on carbon emissions. That's the latest scuttlebutt from state-owned news service Xinhua, which noted that the levy would be part of a broader effort to improve the country's environment. Read full article >>
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The proposal imposes a fee on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories, refineries and other major sources.
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THE Australian Industry Group says Australia should scrap the carbon tax and move to a market based price for emissions.
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AUSTRALIA'S greenhouse gas emissions dropped 0.2 per cent in 2012, prompting calls for the government's carbon policies to be bolstered.
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China will proactively introduce a set of new taxation policies designed to preserve the environment, including a tax on carbon dioxide emissions, according to a senior official with the Ministry of Finance (MOF).
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two of the most liberal senators on Thursday proposed a bill to tax carbon emissions, raising up to $1.2 trillion in revenue over 10 years that would largely be returned consumers.
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Sen. Barbara Boxer on Thursday put her political muscle behind a bill to tax carbon and methane emissions linked to global warming and use the money for consumer rebates and to finance a raft of new clean-energy projects.
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