1.   They say that by bundling greenhouse emissions cuts with other environmental measures, like cutting other power plant emissions, they could win more flexible pollution rules.

2.   Australia and other nations have branded the Japanese proposal on greenhouse gas cuts as too drastic a measure, while the European Union has criticized the targets as inadequate.

3.   Australia and other nations have branded the Japanese proposal on greenhouse gas cuts as too drastic, while the European Union has criticized the targets as inadequate.

4.   First, it is counting on voters to embrace greenhouse cuts.

5.   In return, the administration is planning ways to get utilities to agree to greenhouse cuts.

6.   Japan took a major step toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas cuts when the lower house of Parliament approved the pact on Tuesday.

7.   Japan took a major step toward ratifying the Kyoto Protocol for greenhouse gas cuts when the lower house of Parliament approved the pact Tuesday.