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Study: Pentagon Emits More Greenhouse Gases Than Portugal

   The United States creates more planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions
   through its defense operations alone than industrialized countries such
   as Sweden and Portugal, researchers saidWednesday.
   The Pentagon, which oversees the U.S. military, released about 59
   million metric tons of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases in
   2017, according to the first study to compile such comprehensive data,
   published by Brown University.
   The Pentagon's emissions were "in any one year ... greater than many
   smaller countries' greenhouse gas emissions," the study said.
   If it were a country, its emissions would make it the world's
   55th-largest contributor, said Neta Crawford, the study's author and a
   political scientist at Boston University.
   "There is a lot of room here to reduce emissions," Crawford said.
   Request for comments to the Pentagon went unanswered.

   Troop movements

   Using and moving troops and weapons accounted for about 70% of its
   energy consumption, mostly due to the burning of jet and diesel fuel,
   Crawford said.
   It dwarfed yearly emissions by Sweden, which the international research
   project Global Carbon Atlas ranks 65th worldwide for its of CO2
   emissions.
   Pentagon emissions were higher than those of Portugal, ranked 57th by
   the Global Carbon Atlas, said Crawford.

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