Companies that reduce emissions faster can sell their right to pollute to other companies.
It would limit companies' emissions while allowing them to buy and sell permits to pollute.
But for now, the spill's main political effect has been to pollute the debate about energy.
The supporters of the scheme say that it acts as an incentive for airlines to pollute less.
Of course, once Obama (reluctantly) embraced the idea of trading rights to pollute, the GOP repudiated the concept.
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Such a charge, whether a tax or a system of tradable permits to pollute, would change energy economics radically.
However, it does not take too many of these kinds of problems to pollute the cloud and stunt its growth.
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Enforcement of the unprecedented commitment not to pollute the marine environment can be compelled via LOST's mandatory dispute resolution mechanisms.
"Untouchable" Hindus were required to maintain a prescribed distance from the upper-castes at all times so as not to pollute them.
The rest of America, and other big sources of emissions, such as China, will remain free to pollute as they please.
The pretrial release of these irrelevant red herrings is a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool.
Miners and builders see business opportunities in Africa, and greater freedom (to be their own bosses and speak their minds, but also to pollute).
And the government has recognised that if you are trying to cut global emissions of carbon, it's futile driving away firms to pollute somewhere else.
Attackers could use their knowledge of our nation's crucial computer systems for to get information, to pollute data or simply to destroy vital software, databases and systems.
Andreas Bokkenheuser, an analyst at UBS, says little will change until consumers of coal are forced to pay more to pollute, via a carbon tax, for example.
As the world's governments gather in Buenos Aires to discuss global warming, traders have their eyes on what will soon become a highly-prized commodity: the permission to pollute.
By many accounts it continues to pollute to this day.
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She's accused governor George Bush of making it easier for companies to pollute, and is angry that in just six years he left an appalling legacy for both Houston and the state.
Coal handling certainly needs to be cleaned and cannot be allowed to pollute the air with particulates AT ALL. This will require technology, which we can perfect and then sell to other countries.
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The company rejects these claims, saying it will refill and replant the open pit once the ore has been extracted, and that all necessary care is being taken not to pollute the environment.
Inslee also indicated his confidence that a cap-and-trade system--or a regime where permits to pollute are given away or auctioned, then traded by corporations, governments, and so on--would be established in the next two years.
The other fear is of moral hazard the possibility that people would see the promise of geo-engineering their way out of trouble, despite its risks and uncertainties, as an excuse to continue to pollute the atmosphere as usual.
Lawyers for Perdue, which owned the chickens, and the Hudson family said chicken manure wasn't getting out in great enough amounts to pollute, and farmer Alan Hudson testified that he took steps to avoid pollution and to keep the manure in chicken houses.
In part, it's still the hangover from last summer's storms, but it's also caused by the process of changing over to gasoline that is less polluting in the warm weather, and that procedure is more disruptive this year because distributors are switching from the old chemical called NTBE, which has been found to pollute ground water, to ethanol.
Damon and Frances McDormand play Steve and Sue, two advance agents for a large natural-gas company, who arrive in a Pennsylvania country town and try to induce local landholders to lease the rights to their property for fracking the drilling process that can unearth millions of dollars from cow pastures while threatening to pollute the underground water and damage animals and crops.
Another common view is that poor countries, being unable to afford greenery, should pollute now and clean up later.
This prop house rental had been gutted of its engine and transmission, to avoid having the fluids pollute the water.
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Campaigners believe fracking and other similar methods of gas extractions pose risks to the public and could pollute the Bath hot springs.
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Opponents fear UK Methane will use hydraulic fracking to extract gas which they say could pollute water supplies.
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