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The court said the law’s numerous loopholes benefiting carbon-dependent industries rendered it ineffective.<\/span><\/p>\n On Wednesday, the French government said it planned to submit a revised version of its carbon tax legislation to parliament on July 1st.<\/p>\n The major change in the law would be the extension of the tax to 1,000 highly polluting industrial sites, including power stations, oil refineries and cement works, notes Dow Jones<\/a>.<\/p>\n What doesn’t change are some of the loopholes benefiting energy and carbon-dependent industries and the tax rate, which stays put at 17 euros ($24.38) per ton of carbon-dioxide emissions. The new bill will include the input of businesses and environmentalists.<\/p>\n The Medef, France’s leading business lobby, has called on the government to postpone implementation of the tax to 2011.<\/p>\n On a parallel track, aware that the carbon tax could hurt the competitiveness of French businesses, the French government is also seeking to level the playing field by lobbying for a European Union-wide carbon tax on imports entering the EU, reports the AFP<\/a>.<\/p>\n Sweden, Denmark and Finland have implemented carbon taxes of their own. France would be the biggest economy to apply such a measure.<\/p>\n Photo Credit: AFP via France24<\/span>.com<\/span><\/p>\n France’s quest to become one of the first G7, industrialized countries to tax carbon hit a roadblock last month when the country’s Constitutional Court ruled against the landmark tax for being too easy on polluters. The court said the law’s numerous loopholes benefiting carbon-dependent industries rendered it ineffective. On Wednesday, the French government said it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/photo_1263985231027-1-0.jpg\" "\\"photo_1263985231027-1-0\\"")
<\/a>France’s quest to become one of the first G7, industrialized countries to tax carbon hit a roadblock<\/a> last month when the country’s Constitutional Court ruled against the landmark tax for being too easy on polluters.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"