Obama signs law preventing US airlines from paying EU's ETS

28/11/2012

After much lobbying, and despite the EU’s decision to postpone payments for non-EU flights, President Obama has ruled that US airlines do not need to comply with the Emissions Trading Scheme. While some sceptics could say there is a certain irony in the US government ...

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