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Polluting companies pushed to clean up their act
A tougher carbon trading scheme to match Britain’s lofty climate goals will mean heavy industries pay more for emissions
15 May 2021 • 12:00pm
Tata Steel, like many in its ailing sector, is counting the cost of failing to clean up its carbon emissions.
Its huge steelworks, which looms over Port Talbot, has made the small Welsh town one of the UK’s most polluted areas.
While the company has made waves of job cuts at the plant, cutting emissions has proved to be trickier.
Its struggle has also proved costly. Tata and its rivals have been hit hard by EU policies ramping up the cost of emitting carbon, and they face no let up under Britain’s post-Brexit Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).
The smoke seen from Hanson Cement, which many residents say is more than just steam Residents in the Ribble Valley have raised concerns about air pollution levels in one of their towns which they claim are being made worse by a cement works. Luke Tyrell, who lives in Clitheroe claims that Hanson Cement, previously Castle Cement, on West Bradford Road, is pumping nitrogen oxide into the atmosphere and poisoning the area. Mr Tyrell, who lives close to Bawdlands, said the issue had been ongoing for more than a decade, with thick black smoke coming from the cement works being passed off as steam by bosses of the company.
Coatbridge couple s true love still shines bright after 60 glorious years
John and Cathy McCormack, from Townhead, celebrate diamond wedding anniversary after 60 glorious years
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Coatbridge couple, Cathy and John McCormack, in happier times at the Brig o Doon House Hotel in Alloway
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