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Japan Scales Back CO2 Emissions Goal, Citing Fukushima Nuclear Woes
Japan's government has lowered its goal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, pointing to the shutdown of the nuclear energy program it had banked on to meet its original target of lowering emissions to 25 percent of the 1990s levels.
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