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Lots of energy and water are needed to cool the exhaust streams, a requirement that has limited adoption of CO2 capture in some of the most polluting industries.

Wessex Water has been fined £500,000 for polluting two rivers and killing thousands of fish.

He said the UK government was taking "definitive action" on tackling pollution with a bill which would give increased powers to regulators to tackle polluting companies.

“And that gap is paid for by the lungs of the breathers in California. That’s what’s subsidizing polluting industries — people’s health.”

The researchers at Kyoto University hope using wood in making spacecraft could also be much less polluting than metal ones when they burn-up on re-entry at the end of their life.