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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

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, 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

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