
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, February 5, 1991                   TAG: 9102050155
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHANTILLY, VA.                                LENGTH: Short

U.S. PLEDGES 'GREENHOUSE' GAS LIMIT

As a U.N. conference on global warming opened Monday, the United States pledged for the first time to stabilize the amount of "greenhouse" gases it emits into the air.

"America's climate-change strategy includes actions that will result in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions in the year 2000 being equal to or below 1987 levels," Michael Deland, chairman of the President's Council on Environmental Quality, told the first session of the 10-day U.N. conference.

As record high temperatures were reached outside the suburban Washington conference center, delegates from more than 90 nations began to negotiate a framework for an international response to the problem of global warming.

The U.S. comments were an encouraging sign to environmentalists and delegates, as the United States - unlike every other of the world's industrialized nations - never before had committed to halting growth in the amount of air-fouling chemicals from industry, autos and power plants.

- The Baltimore Sun

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