Guardian: MEPs threw down the gauntlet to struggling airlines yesterday by voting overwhelmingly to include aviation in Europe’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) a year earlier than planned. The European parliament’s environment committee said airlines should be covered by the ETS from 2011 rather than 2012 as proposed by the European commission and the 27 national governments. The MEPs pressed the EU to force airlines to bid for at least 25% of pollution permits and to set the cap on CO2 …