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8 June 2005
George W. Bush's decision not to sign the United States up to the Kyoto Protocol was partly a result of pressure from ExxonMobil, the world's most powerful oil company, and other industries, according to US State Department papers obtained by Greenpeace under US freedom of information legislation. See here.

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