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Chile Carbon Tax Coming Up This Week
2014-09-02 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: This week, the government of Chile holds a final vote on its first carbon taxation scheme, also the first in South America, a measure to make fossil fuel generators pay for emitting greenhouse gases. The Chile carbon tax is part of a larger program of wide-ranging tax revisions introduced by the countrys popular center-left president Michelle Bachelet, partly to enact social reforms promised in her recent election. Though Chile has the highest per capita income in South America (near $20,000),...
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