Europe's top industrial firms have a cache of 240 million pollution permits

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European Commission estimates energy-intensive sector will have accumulated allowances worth €7-12bn by the end of 2012

Some of Europe's largest industrial companies gained billions of euros from the carbon emission rules they lobbied fiercely against, new analysis reveals today. Ten steel and cement companies have amassed...

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