Latest update: 20/01/2010 

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French carbon tax: much ado about nothing?

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What to expect today from the French government's revised carbon tax plan? The first one came to a sorry end last December, shot down by the Constitutional Council. The court ruled that the plan contained too many exemptions for France's top polluters and would leave households having to shoulder too high a share of the new tax.


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