| Sydney Morning Herald: BUSINESS and conservation groups have expressed alarm at government figures showing Australia's greenhouse gas pollution from electricity consumption and car use has soared in the past 15 years. Releasing the figures yesterday, the Environment Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, insisted the nation was still on track to meet its greenhouse gas targets under the UN's Kyoto Protocol, despite emissions from electricity use increasing more than 42 per cent and transport's rising 30 per cent ... |