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Watchdog Finds a US Chemical Plant Isn’t Reporting Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutants and Ozone-Depleting Substances to Federal Regulators

Fenceline monitoring by the Environmental Investigation Agency furthers the call to close industry loopholes under an international environmental agreement.

By Phil McKenna

 Honeywell Specialty Materials in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Credit: Kathleen Flynn for the Washington Post
Air conditioners Kota Bharu Malaysia. Credit: Andrew Woodley/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Potent Greenhouse Gases and Ozone Depleting Chemicals Called CFCs Are Back on the Rise Following an International Ban, a New Study Finds

By Phil McKenna
A weather balloon rises into the atmosphere, transmitting data about ozone as well as basic weather information like temperature, pressure and humidity. Credit: Robert Schwarz

Long Phased-Out Refrigeration and Insulation Chemicals Still Widely in Use and Warming the Climate

By Phil McKenna
Air conditioning units hang off the back side of a row of buildings on July 18, 2018 in Shenyang, Liaoning Province of China. Credit: Visual China Group via Getty Images

China, India Emissions Pledges May Not Be Reducing Powerful Warming Gas

By Phil McKenna

Coke Ices Use of 'Super Greenhouse Gases'

By Amy Westervelt

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