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05-21-2008, 02:13 PM
San Francisco Considers Nation's First Ever 'Pollution Fee'
Move Meant To Help Slow Global Warming
NBC 11
May 21, 2008
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.
The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
The agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, will be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules will take effect July 1.
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SOURCE:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/16349069/detail.html
Move Meant To Help Slow Global Warming
NBC 11
May 21, 2008
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District's board of directors on Wednesday approved new rules to charge businesses a fee for the pollution they emit.
The group's board of directors voted 15-1 on unprecedented new rules that will impose fees on factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses that emit carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases.
The agency, which regulates air pollution in the nine-county Bay Area, will be the first in the country to charge companies fees based on their greenhouse gas emissions, experts say. The new rules will take effect July 1.
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SOURCE:
http://www.nbc11.com/news/16349069/detail.html