Updated: EU bans industrial gas carbon credits

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Offsets raised by destroying HFC 23 and N2O gases to be excluded from May 2013

Controversial carbon credits gained by destroying greenhouse gases have been banned from the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) after a European Commission vote this afternoon. The majority of offsets...

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