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US Emissions of the World’s Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Are 56 Percent Higher Than EPA Estimates, a New Study Shows

Electric utilities are likely responsible for the nation’s higher than expected emissions of sulfur hexafluoride, a greenhouse gas 25,000 times worse for the climate than carbon dioxide.

By Phil McKenna

Electricity pylon and power cables. Credit: Tim Graham/Getty Images
A city worker in Glasgow, Scotland scrapes COP26 climate protest posters off a boarded-up storefront on Sauchiehall Street, where the week before thousands of demonstrators marched to express their disappointment with the lack of progress at the annual United Nations negotiations. Credit: Bob Berwyn/Inside Climate News

COP Negotiators Demand Nations do More to Curb Climate Change, but Required Emissions Cuts Remain Elusive

By Bob Berwyn

Farmers harvest watermelons in a field on March 26, 2021 in Wanning, Hainan Province of China. Credit: Yuan Chen/VCG via Getty Images

Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Food Production are Far Greater Than Previous Estimates Suggest

By Georgina Gustin

Louisville, Kentucky skyline as photographed from the Ohio River Greenway on July 16, 2015 in Clarksville, Indiana. Credit: Raymond Boyd/Getty Images

Louisville’s Super-Polluting Chemical Plant Emits Not One, But Two Potent Greenhouse Gases

By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers

Two Iranian men wearing protective face masks walk along the Azadi (Freedom) Square in western Tehran during a polluted air, following the Covid-19 outbreak in Iran, on January 12, 2021. Credit: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Covid-19 Cut Gases That Warm the Globe But a Drop in Other Pollution Boosted Regional Temperatures

By Bob Berwyn

President Joe Biden takes the oath of office during the presidential inauguration on Jan. 20, 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Biden Signs Sweeping Orders to Tackle Climate Change and Rollback Trump’s Anti-Environment Legacy

By Sabrina Shankman, Dan Gearino, David Hasemyer, James Bruggers, Judy Fahys, Marianne Lavelle, Phil McKenna

A piece of the Perito Moreno glacier, part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, breaks off and crashes into lake Argentina in the Los Glaciares National Park on April 5, 2019 in Santa Cruz province, Argentina. Credit: David Silverman/Getty Images

The Worst-Case Scenario for Global Warming Tracks Closely With Actual Emissions

By Bob Berwyn

Oil sands upgrader

Why Tar Sands' Extra Pollution Matters

By Lisa Song, InsideClimate News

Houston petroleum refineries

GHG Rules for Oil Refineries on Hold

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

EPA's GHG Program: Deadline Missed

By Reuters

Cargo ship

First-Ever Deal for Cutting CO2 from Ships

By John Vidal, Guardian

Industry near New Orleans, Louisiana

First GHG Permits Test EPA's Tailoring Rule

By Maria Gallucci

Power plant at night

GHG Reporting Program Draws Ire From All Sides

By Elizabeth McGowan

Factories and bridge over a river

EPA Extends GHG Reporting Deadline

By Tom Doggett and Timothy Gardner, Reuters

Jobs Debate Drives Brouhaha over EPA's Regulatory Powers

By Elizabeth McGowan

Runoff in a cropfield

Nitrous Oxide, a Greenhouse Gas, Now 3 Times Higher in Rivers

By Lisa Song

Calendar EPA Climate Change

EPA Sends Endangerment Finding to White House

By Stacy Morford

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

EPA Expects to Propose CO2 Endangerment Finding by Earth Day

By Stacy Morford

Steps Obama Must Take on the Path to Copenhagen

By Stacy Morford

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