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Carbon tax just an excise hike
Irish Independent
Fionnan Sheahan's article (Irish Independent, November 25) on the forthcoming carbon tax makes things a lot clearer. The carbon tax will increase the cost ...

Japan's steel chiefs lobby Meti head on carbon tax
Steel Business Briefing (subscription)
... any moves for Japan to embrace a carbon emissions trading scheme. The Japanese government plans to bring in an environment tax from April 2010 and while ...

The Positioning Of Charles Krauthammer
Atlantic Online (blog)
But leaving no mechanism, even a low and slowly rising carbon tax, to combat CO2 strikes me as a shift from last December. Again one asks: why? ...

France wants a 'carbon tax' on EU imports
Times of India
NEW DELHI/PARIS: In a dampener for India, the French government is set to insist that the European Union impose a carbon tax on imports from countries such ...

Mauritius imposes carbon tax on energy guzzlers
African Press Agency (subscription)
APA - Port Louis (Mauritius) In a bid to promote energy efficiency, the government of Mauritius has decided to impose a carbon tax on all apparatus that use ...

Imposing carbon tax on fuels
Irish Times
Madam, – The proposed introduction of a carbon tax on domestic fuels, announced recently by the Commission on Taxation, is ill-conceived and ill-timed. ...