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),...