Reuters: France plans to tax big polluters on their carbon dioxide emissions until 2013, when a separate EU-wide scheme will make such firms pay for emissions permits, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo said on Wednesday. In a shock move, France’s Constitutional Court rejected an original version of the government’s carbon tax late last year on the grounds that it exempted too many big firms and ran counter to the spirit of equality in the French tax system. Borloo told reporters …