U.S. set to sign Kyoto Climate treaty

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The United States was set Thursday to sign the
agreement reached last year in Japan to fight global warming, U.S. senators
and environmentalists attending climate talks here said. The Clinton
administration, facing stiff opposition to the climate treaty from the
Republican-led Congress, is among the last of the rich governments to sign
the accord reached in Kyoto for industrialized nations to reduce their
heat-trapping pollution. At the United Nations, U.S. officials confirmed
that Peter Burleigh, the American representative at the U.N., would sign
the treaty Thursday afternoon. See full story
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