With Regard to International Efforts to Protect the Environment, the Clinton

question 153

Multiple Choice

With regard to international efforts to protect the environment, the Clinton administration

• A) opposed the 1992 Rio de Janeiro Treaty as an attack on American industry.
• B) refused to fulfill the previous Bush administration's pledge to support the war against global warming.
• C) signed the 1997 Kyoto protocol on carbon dioxide emissions but never submitted it for ratification to the Republican-controlled Senate.
• D) showed its disdain for the 1997 Kyoto protocol, which it had signed only to mollify the nation's environmentalists, by secretly lobbying against its ratification in the Senate.

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