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EU loophole gives big business a licence to pollute

Big businesses are in for a pollution and profit bonanza because of loopholes in the European scheme to limit climate emissions that will see giant corporations make billions of pounds and pump millions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

New figures reveal companies will now be able either to boost their climate pollution or sell unused pollution permits for millions of pounds, enabling others to increase their emissions.