Among the Republican Party candidates vying to contest Obama in the 2012 presidential election, there is a recurring theme: the idea that environmental regulation prevents job creation. While only one candidate attacked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in Monday’s Tea Party Express debate, Herman Cain’s comment that the agency has “run wild” drew enthusiastic applause. [...]

©WWF, Japan As explained in a previous article, the Japanese Government has been examining its mid-term goal of greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions (2020) and is going to announce it in June. On 12 February, the committee on the mid-term goal, which has been established under the conference on global warming of the Government and has [...]