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Super-Pollutants

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

The nitrous oxide emissions from hundreds of chemical plants globally, 300 times more warming than carbon dioxide, are the greenhouse equivalent of 45 million cars.

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.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) speak after a press conference on Capitol Hill on Dec. 20, 2020 in Washington, D.C. Credit: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images

Stimulus Bill Is Laden With Climate Provisions, Including a Phasedown of Chemical Super-Pollutants

By Phil McKenna

Restrictive safety standards in the U.S. and elsewhere have limited production of propane based air conditioners to just 1 percent of total capacity from 18 assembly lines across China that were retooled to use propane with money from the United Nations. Credit: Feng Hao

Chinese Factories Want to Make Climate-Friendly Air Conditioners. A US Company Is Blocking Them

By Phil McKenna and Feng Hao

As Special Envoy for Climate, John Kerry Will Be No Stranger to International Climate Negotiations

By Phil McKenna

Crops are sprayed with fertilizer to promote the growth of sorghum crops in Heilongjiang Province, China, on July 1, 2020. Credit: Costfoto/Barcroft Media via Getty Images

Emissions of Nitrous Oxide, a Climate Super-Pollutant, Are Rising Fast on a Worst-Case Trajectory

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

Contrails from airplanes cross in the sky on June 2, 2020 in Aylesbury, United Kingdom. Credit: Catherine Ivill/Getty Images

Climate Scientists Take Their Closest Look Yet at the Warming Impact of Aviation Emissions

By Leto Sapunar

Methane flare. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

In a Move That Could be Catastrophic for the Climate, Trump’s EPA Rolls Back Methane Regulations

By Phil McKenna

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

An oil pumpjack works at dawn in the Permian Basin oil field on January 20, 2016 in the oil town of Andrews, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Super-Polluting Methane Emissions Twice Federal Estimates in Permian Basin, Study Finds

By Phil McKenna

Credit: U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit

U.S. Appeals Court in D.C. Restores Limitations on Super-Polluting HFCs

By Phil McKenna

A truck carries ore excavated from the Mary River iron mine across the frozen landscape of Canada's Baffin Island. Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to more than quadruple the mine's production, starting in 2025. Credit: Baffinland Media Centre

On Baffin Island in the Fragile Canadian Arctic, an Iron Ore Mine Spews Black Carbon

By Kristoffer Tigue

A Plant in Florida Emits Vast Quantities of a Greenhouse Gas Nearly 300 Times More Potent Than CO2

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

Grocery store refrigerators. Credit: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images

New EPA Rule Change Saves Industry Money but Exacts a Climate Cost

By James Bruggers

Two new studies this week bring up new information on the sources of methane in the atmosphere. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Two New Studies Add Fuel to the Debate Over Methane

By Georgina Gustin

Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Worst Case Climate Scenario Might Be (Slightly) Less Dire Than Thought

By Bob Berwyn

Shipping containers on a ship.  Credit: International Maritime Organization

Shipping Lines Turn to LNG-Powered Vessels, But They’re Worse for the Climate

By Phil McKenna

Methane flare. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Is Natural Gas Really Helping the U.S. Cut Emissions?

By Nicholas Kusnetz

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