carbon dioxide emissions
May 23 2008, Vikas Shekhawat

The San Francisco Bay Area Air Quality Management District has imposed a pollution fee of 4.4 cents per ton of carbon dioxide factories, power plants, oil refineries and other businesses emit. Will this help solve global warming? Heavy taxes on...

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