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

A U.S. chemical plant in Louisiana that produces a common refrigerant may be partly to blame for increased emissions of CFCs—chemicals thousands of times more potent at warming the planet than carbon dioxide.

By Phil McKenna

Air conditioners Kota Bharu Malaysia. Credit: Andrew Woodley/Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images
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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