Donald Trump has had quite a week of it in the UK. First a petition calling to ban him from the UK was approved for a parliamentary debate. Now the billionaire tycoon is facing fines for carbon emissions from one of his private jets.
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.
https://www.rt.com/uk/328291-trump-fined-air-pollution/
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