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Sarkozy Speaks In Earth-Saving Sintax

By Ross Gelbspan
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy called for a national “carbon tax” on global-warming pollutants and a European levy on imports from countries outside the Kyoto Protocol.

Sarkozy mentioned no names, but any such levy is bound to be targeted at imports from the United States and Australia, the only advanced economies that remain outside the UN‘s landmark pact on greenhouse-gas emissions.

By Ross Gelbspan

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