Business Green: The government has been accused of lobbying to weaken new European laws that will force car manufacturers to build cleaner vehicles. A briefing document to MEPs from the Department for Transport (DfT) seen by The Guardian urges them to support three proposed amendments to the European Commission’s proposal to limit emissions from cars to 120g of CO2 for every kilometre travelled by 2012. The corporate lobby in Germany, the UK and France had already pressured the EU’s …