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Super-Pollutants

Can California Reduce Dairy Methane Emissions Equitably?

By Liza Gross

Remote sensing of methane from high altitude aircraft reveals plumes of the gas coming from the open face, on the left, and from a vent, on the right, at the River Birch landfill outside New Orleans in April 2021. Researchers from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carbon Mapper calculate the rate of methane venting at approximately 2,000 kilograms per hour, which would be 48 metric tons per day. Credit: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA JPL and Carbon Mapper.

EPA Struggles to Track Methane Emissions From Landfills. Here’s Why It Matters

By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, and Robert Benincasa

Kristen Taddonio confers with the CU Boulder students working on the home they were constructing for her and her husband in Fraser, Colorado, which was the students' 2021 Solar Decathlon entry. Credit: Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado

A Colorado Home Wins the Solar Decathlon, But Still Helps Cook the Planet

By Phil McKenna

Juergen Graeser launches a weather balloon on the helicopter deck of Polarstern research vessel in 2019. Credit: Esther Horvath

New Climate Research From a Year-Long Arctic Expedition Raises an Ozone Alarm in the High North

By Bob Berwyn

Flared natural gas is burned off at Apache Corporations operations at the Deadwood natural gas plant in the Permian Basin on Feb. 5, 2015 in Garden City, Texas. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

With the World Focused on Reducing Methane Emissions, Even Texas Signals a Crackdown on ‘Flaring’

By Jonathan Moens

North Dakota, Using Taxpayer Funds, Bailed Out Oil and Gas Companies by Plugging Abandoned Wells

By Nicholas Kusnetz

Chemical plants in the Rubbertown area of Louisville stand near the Ohio River in February 2018 during flood conditions on the river. The Chemours chemical plant is located within the wedge-shaped Chemours property in the lower half of the photo. Credit: Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal

The EPA Proposes a Ban on HFC-23, the Most Potent Greenhouse Gas Among Hydrofluorocarbons, by October 2022

By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers

An oil well jack pump and natural gas flare off at sunset in the Bakken oil field north of Williston, North Dakota. Credit: William Campbell/Corbis via Getty Images

The Senate Reinstates Methane Emissions Regulations Rolled Back by Trump, Marking a Clear Win for Climate Activists

By Phil McKenna

Flames from a flaring pit near a well in the Bakken Oil Field. Credit: Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images

Ahead of the Climate Summit, Environmental Groups Urge Biden to Champion Methane Reductions as a Quick Warming Fix

By Phil McKenna

Air conditioning units on the side of a building. Credit: Jason Larkin/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images

An Unusual Coalition of Environmental and Industry Groups Is Calling on the EPA to Quickly Phase Out Super-Polluting Refrigerants

By Phil McKenna

Phil McKenna poses with his new, HFC-free refrigerator. Courtesy of Phil McKenna

Want to Buy a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator? Leading Manufacturers Are Finally Providing the Information You Need

By Phil McKenna

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

Laurie Barr, co-founder of Save Our Steams Pennsylvania, searches abandoned oil wells for pollutants as an old pumpjack stands in the Allegeny National Forest near Marienville, Pennsylvania, on Monday, June 6, 2016. Credit: Chris Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Biden Takes Aim at Reducing Emissions of Super-Polluting Methane Gas, With or Without the Republicans

By Marianne Lavelle

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

By Phil McKenna

A man views a General Electric refrigerator displayed for sale at a Lowe's Cos. store in Torrance, California. Credit: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

I Tried to Buy a Climate-Friendly Refrigerator. What I Got Was a Carbon Bomb.

By Phil McKenna

Chemical plants in the Rubbertown area of Louisville stand near the Ohio River in February 2018 during flood conditions on the river. The Chemours chemical plant is located within the wedge-shaped Chemours property in the lower half of the photo. Credit: Pat McDonogh/Courier Journal

A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City

By Phil McKenna, James Bruggers

CFC-11 was used primarily to make foam insulation, and was slowly phased out before being banned entirely by 2010. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

A New Study Closes the Case on the Mysterious Rise of a Climate Super-Pollutant

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

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