Pollution permits that should be auctioned were to be given to favored groups.

污染许可证应拍卖获得，而且将会给那些将受到优待的团体。

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The Environmental Protection Agency began holding annual auctions to sell the pollution permits.

美国环保署每年开办标售会，出售污染许可。

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Elsewhere, Italy and Germany are both warning that forcing their industries to buy pollution permits will damage competitiveness.

在其他地方，意大利和德国都警告迫使他们的工业购买污染许可证将损害其竞争力。

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But he hopes to raise billions through a system in which businesses that release greenhouse gases would buy and trade pollution permits.

VOA: special.2009.02.27

Ms Hedegaard confirmed that the commission is seeking to withdraw a batch of pollution permits from the market in order to drive the price higher.

BBC: Airlines 'are conforming' with EU rules on emissions

Russia, Belarus and Ukraine then further delayed the endgame of the conference with an argument over so-called "hot air" - the pollution permits they were given to allow their heavy industries to thrive.

BBC: Science & Environment

Those industries collapsed but Poland and Russia insist that - as they suffered economic pain during the collapse - they should be allowed to use up the pollution permits as their economies grow again.

BBC: Science & Environment