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Article: Pentagon pollution (US lawmakers want exemption for US military operations from the Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions).
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- Ploughshares Monitor
- Article date:
- September 1, 1998
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Fresh on the heels of US government attempts to exclude the Pentagon from parts of the Ottawa Landmines Treaty, US lawmakers have moved to exempt US military operations from the international Kyoto agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
In May the US House of Representatives voted unanimously for an amendment to the 1999 Defense Authorization Act that "prohibits the restriction of armed forces under the Kyoto Protocol." According to an InterPress Service report, Republican congressman Benjamin Gilman, who introduced the amendment, stated that the Kyoto Treaty would "exert pressure on future administrations to curtail defence operations and training."
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