College Students Buy Permits For Cleaner Air

national | miscellaneous | news report Wednesday January 22, 2003 21:56 by Raymond McInerney

The US Environmental Protection Agency issues permits, called pollution allowances. Industries buy the permits to be able to release more toxic pollutants into the environment than EPA standards allow. Some students from the Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa are buying permits and retiring them, to eliminate tons sulfur dioxide and CO2 from being released into the atmosphere.

To learn more information about the Environmental Protection Agency and Permits, check out this web site: http://www.epa.gov/