Chancellor Angela Merkel's ruling coalition declared on Monday it would shut all German's nuclear reactors by 2022, in a policy reversal drawn up in a rush after the Fukushima disaster in Japan."Highly polluting brown coal"?
The coalition, sensitive to accusations it may increase dependence on highly polluting brown coal, said it planned to cut power use by 10 percent by 2020.
"Cut power use by 10 percent"?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to sort out the carbon footprint on this one.