Airlines Still Charging Flyers for Non-Existent Carbon Tax
Environmentalists have discovered that airlines are making an enormous amount of money, to the tune of half a billion euros, by passing on a carbon surcharge to passengers despite a November EU decision to freeze the carbon tax it originally instated on January 1, 2012. During an investigation, the environmental group Transport and Environment discovered [...]
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