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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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illustrated by the case of Romania, where biodiesel. Differential Export Taxes (DET) maintain a large differential between an export tax on crude soybean oil of. 32% and an export tax on biodiesel of 20% (the effectively applied rate is 14.16%), thereby incentivizing the export of the finished product biodiesel, EBB says.

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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The recognized benefits of industrial facilities, including manufacturing products, employment and tax revenues, are not addressed in the report. Sectors excluded from the EEA analysis include transport, households and most agricultural activities—if these were included the cost of pollution would be even higher.

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Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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The report found that strict new emissions laws are having a strong effect on the availability of cleaner cars, but wealth, motoring taxes, fuel prices and consumer attitudes, which vary wildly from country to country across Europe, have much more of an effect on how clean a car is chosen.&#. Romania / 156 / 155 / 9.

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