Secret Subsidies: How the Government is Gifting Free Money to Airlines via Its Carbon Market

CleanTechnica
By Transport & Environment…Jun 27, 2022, 3:57 am173 pts
UK airlines were allowed to pollute for free and given subsidies via the UK’s flagship scheme to reduce carbon emissions, new study finds. The UK government is giving airlines so many free pollution permits through the carbon market for aviation that they don’t have to pay for any of their climate-warming…

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