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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The pretrial release of these irrelevant red herrings is a desperate and pathetic attempt by the defense to pollute and sway the jury pool.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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"There's just a cleaner way to catch striped bass...something that doesn't pollute the environment, that doesn't contaminate fish and doesn't represent a health hazard to the consumer of this fish, " says Ronald Domurat, a beach ranger and derby committee member.
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Whether this can be done in a way that does not pollute the marine environment unacceptably remains to be seen.
And in Florida, Ocean Boy Farms claims to be able to produce a marine shrimp that does not pollute the environment.
In a world where fossil fuels still dominate and factories still pollute, somebody's got to sell the tools to clean it all up.
V-MODA's analog noise isolation naturally blocks out the distractions of jet engines, outside noise and booth monitors minus the extra digital-to-analog conversions of battery powered headphones that pollute the purity of your music.
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Some of the proposed the legislation around carbon pricing proceeds from the idea that companies do not pay the full cost of consuming valuable natural resources that also pollute the environment, and instead pass substantial costs to taxpayers.
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The discarded plastic bottles and bags that pollute almost every other country on the continent are nowhere to be seen: the government has banned them.
If these pollute the environment, what is wrong with making them pay to have it cleaned up?
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People are required to put out all household garbage in specially-produced transparent bags that do not pollute during incineration.
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