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UK Fines Donald Trump For Air Pollution

Donald Trump can’t be too happy with the UK at the moment….or maybe it’s the other way round A petition calling to ban him from the UK was approved for a parliamentary debate earlier in the week and now the billionaire tycoon faces fines from the British environment agency over carbon emissions from one of his private jets. RT reports: Trump is one of a number of businessmen and companies fined for failing to “surrender sufficient allowances to cover annual reportable emissions” by the Environment Agency. The organization is responsible for enforcing the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) in the UK. Among other offenders are the Bahraini Royal Family, 21st Century Fox America and vehicle manufacturers JCB, who have all been asked to pay for flights to and from the UK. The ETS states that all polluters must give a carbon permit for each ton of carbon pollution emitted, or face a £75 fine. Some permits are given to air operators for free, or can be bought for roughly £6. The Republican presidential hopeful faces a £1,610 fine for a flight to the UK in a plane owned by DJT Operations I LLC. The Guardian speculated the plane could [...]