Donald Trump fined for pollution from one of his private jets
by Damian Carrington from on (#101PE)
US presidential candidate joins the Bahrain royal family and Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox America whose aircraft have all fallen foul of the EU's emissions trading scheme
A parliamentary petition backed by 500,000 people has so far failed to bar Donald Trump from the UK, but the controversial US presidential candidate and climate change sceptic now faces a new deterrent: a fine for the carbon pollution from one of his enormous private jets.
The Bahrain Royal family, 21st Century Fox America, the company chaired by Rupert Murdoch, and British construction vehicle manufacturers JCB have also been asked to pay up for flights to and from the UK.
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