japan pollution Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:51:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Japan’s Fossil Fuel Imports Raised by 40%, Emission Regulations Backing Down https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-fossil-fuel-raise-emission-regulation-back-down-20120608/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/japan-fossil-fuel-raise-emission-regulation-back-down-20120608/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 18:51:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24903 Back in 2009, Japan told everybody that they’d reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 25 percent and would emit less than it did in 1990. And they would have done that by 2020. Now, the current prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, says that they’ll back down, having to use more coal to power up their plants. The […]

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