1.   The US Environmental Protection Agency has appointed the Chicago Board of Trade as administrator for its annual auctions of pollution permits, scheduled to start next year.

2.   On pollution he confirmed that the Department of the Environment was considering the introduction of tradeable pollution permits for sulphur dioxide emissions.

3.   But now the sweeping law is bringing the toughest air pollution permits U.S. industry has faced.

4.   But state officials said it continued to violate its pollution permits.

5.   Five years ago, many civil rights groups began challenging state environmental agencies for issuing pollution permits that the groups say violate Title VI.

6.   For years, Texas has boasted a statute that allows citizens to challenge pollution permits through a process much like a courtroom trial.

7.   He threatened that unless they complied, no new pollution permits could be issued on streams where the new limits were not being enforced.

8.   Like other states, Virginia is supposed to oversee compliance with water pollution permits by using monthly reports known as discharge monitoring reports, or DMRs.

9.   Meeker said her department will require the county to get a pollution permit, which she hopes the DEP could issue in a few months.

10.   Owners of pollution permits could then buy and sell them in private markets.