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To Protect the Ozone Layer and Slow Global Warming, Fertilizers Must Be Deployed More Efficiently, UN Says

Fertilizers are the largest source of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas that’s also the most significant destroyer of ozone, yet not controlled under the Montreal Protocol.

By Georgina Gustin

A Brazilian farmer sprays his field with fertilizer in Balsa Nova, Brazil. Credit: Brunno Covello/picture alliance via Getty Images
A view of Pingmei Shenma Group’s nylon production complex in Pingdingshan, China on Aug. 13, 2022. Credit: Feature China/Future Publishing via Getty Images

US Diplomats Notch a Win on Climate Super Pollutants With Help From the Private Sector

By Phil McKenna

An adipic acid plant in Liaoyang, in northeast China's Liaoning Province, owned by Liaoyang Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of Petrochina. Credit: Yang Qing/Xinhua/Yang Qing via Getty Images

Focus on the ‘Forgotten Greenhouse Gas’ Intensifies as All Eyes Are on the U.S. and China to Curb Pollution

By Phil McKenna

Rick Duke, deputy special envoy for climate, speaks at the White House Super Pollutants Summit in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on July 23 in Washington. Credit: Phil McKenna/Inside Climate News

Biden Administration Targets Domestic Emissions of Climate Super-Pollutant With Eye Toward U.S.-China Climate Agreement

By Phil McKenna

Dozens of residents live within a few hundred yards of the Miller Plant in West Jefferson, Alabama, the nation's largest polluter of greenhouse gases. Credit: Lee Hedgepeth/ Inside Climate News

An Alabama Coal Plant Once Again Nabs the Dubious Title of the Nation’s Worst Greenhouse Gas Polluter

By Lee Hedgepeth

Ascend Performance Materials' adipic acid plant near Pensacola, Florida. Credit: Agya Aning

A US Non-Profit Aims to Reduce Emissions of a Super Climate Pollutant From Chemical Plants in China

By Phil McKenna

Aerial photo taken on Nov. 21, 2019 shows a night view of a factory of Petrochina Liaoyang Petrochemical Company in Liaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Credit: Yang Qing/Xinhua via Getty Images

Eleven Chemical Plants in China and One in the U.S. Emit a Climate Super-Pollutant Called Nitrous Oxide That’s 273 Times More Potent Than Carbon Dioxide

By Phil McKenna

Shipping container trucks sit in traffic as the International Longshore and Warehouse Union strikes, putting a halt to most of the work at the busiest seaport complex in the nation on November 29, 2012 in Long Beach, California. Credit: David McNew/Getty Images

Diesel Emissions in Major US Cities Disproportionately Harm Communities of Color, New Studies Confirm

By Kristoffer Tigue

Has the Ascend Nylon Plant in Florida Cut Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions, as Promised? A Customer Wants to Know

By Phil McKenna

The Navoiyazot chemical plant in Navoiy, Uzbekistan uses a chemical reactor to eliminate 97 percent of its emissions of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas.

A German Initiative Seeks to Curb Global Emissions of a Climate Super-Pollutant

By Phil McKenna

Linggas tanks have begun capturing and purifying waste nitrous oxide gas from the Henan Shenma Nylon Chemical Company in central China. Credit: Geng Xue, Linggas

A Chinese Chemical Company Captures and Reuses 6,000 Tons of a Super-Polluting Greenhouse Gas

By Phil McKenna, Lili Pike

Petrochina Liaoyang Petrochemical Company in Liaoyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province. Credit Yang Qing/Xinhua via Getty

‘Super-Pollutant’ Emitted by 11 Chinese Chemical Plants Could Equal a Climate Catastrophe

By PHIL MCKENNA, LILI PIKE, KATRINA NORTHROP

Runoff in a cropfield

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

By Lisa Song

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