DAILY DIALECTIC
July 06, 2009
"Decked out in green jackets, the enforcers will be able to demand access to company property, view power meters, call up electricity and gas bills and examine carbon-trading records for an estimated 6,000 British businesses... The formation of the green police overcomes a psychological hurdle in the battle against climate change. Ministers have long recognised the need to have new categories of taxes and criminal offences for CO2 emissions... The central unit...can call on the agency's national network of hundreds of pollution inspectors, many of whom will soon be trained in CO2 monitoring..."

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