US CONGRESSIONAL HEARING CALLS EU EMISSIONS TRADING SCHEME ‘A VIOLATION ON INTERNATIONAL LAW’
July 1st, 2011
BY MJ DESCHAMPS
THE UNITED States federal government has criticised the European Union's Emissions Trading Scheme's extension to the aviation sector (Wednesday July 27) at a congressional hearing in Washington DC. House of Representatives transportation and infrastructure committee chairman John L Mica called the plans "a violation of international law".
Objecting to their compulsory involvement in the ETS, US airlines have already challenged the policy at the European Court of Justice, and the US House of Representatives has backed American ...
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