French Pique-Nique Update

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Flash: The French are dropping plans for a picnic tax (per earlier blog). It’s elitist. Apparently the rich don’t pique-nique and the pollution of the non-rich isn’t important.

Julia Whitty is Mother Jones’ environmental correspondent, lecturer, and 2008 winner of the Kiriyama Prize and the John Burroughs Medal Award.