Sydney Morning Herald: BRUSSELS: The European Commission is planning to clamp down on a EUR2 billion ($2.8 billion) carbon trading scam involving the deliberate production of greenhouse gases which the fraudulent manufacturers are then paid to destroy. The Climate Change Commissioner, Connie Hedegaard, says the use of these carbon permits, from industrial gas projects in China, could be banned because of their ”total lack of environmental integrity”. Billions of euros worth of the controversial permits were used…