Reuters: The outage at Japan’s biggest nuclear power station was likely to have pushed up manufacturers CO2 emissions in the year ended last month, despite a slowdown in economic activity, a government official said on Friday. Carbon dioxide emissions from manufacturers, Japan’s main polluters, rose 1 percent in the year to March 2008, a nationwide survey on top greenhouse gas emitting factories and offices showed on Friday. That was far slower than a 12 percent rise in the utility …