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HCFC-22

A Restricted Climate Super Pollutant Is Pumped Out at Far Higher Levels Than Countries Admit. What Happens Next?

HFC-23 emissions from chemical plants in eastern China and elsewhere likely violate an international climate agreement despite readily available pollution controls. Advocates are pressing for action.

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

 A chemical plant in Jiujiang, China. Chemical plants in eastern China, including one in Jiujiang, are likely the primary source of 40 percent of the world’s trifluoromethane (HFC-23) emissions. Credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images
Former Secretary of State John Kerry and Chinese Deputy Minister of Environmental Protection Zhai Qing arrive for a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali on October 14, 2016. Credit: Cyril Ndegeya/AFP via Getty Images

Is China Emitting a Climate Super Pollutant in Violation of an International Environmental Agreement?

By Phil McKenna, Peter Aldhous
An aerial photo taken on Sept. 12, 2021 shows a chemical factory being dismantled and relocated along the Grand Canal in Huai 'an City, East China's Jiangsu Province. Credit: He Jinghua/Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

China Just Entered a Major International Climate Agreement. Now Comes the Hard Part

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike
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

World Bank Caught in Controversy Over Suspect Carbon Credits

By Stacy Feldman

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