A chemical plant owned by Houston-based Ascend Performance Materials emitted 33,046 metric tons of nitrous oxide in 2018. That’s equal to the annual greenhouse gas emissions of 2.1 million automobiles. Continue Reading
Indians breathed easier on Monday as lockdowns ordered to combat the spread of the coronavirus in India’s megacities kept cars off the road and closed factories, improving air quality and Continue Reading
A new study published in Nature may have ended a long scientific debate about the key source of rising methane levels in the atmosphere. It found that methane emissions from Continue Reading
More than half of all air-quality-related early deaths in the United States are a result of emissions originating outside of the state in which those deaths occur, MIT researchers report Continue Reading
Cleaning up dirty air might sometimes make things worse Imaginechina Limited/Alamy Cities tackling one major air pollutant risk inadvertently making things worse by fuelling the growth of another, potentially more Continue Reading
Before it exploded last June, Philadelphia Energy Solutions (PES) — the largest crude oil refinery on the East Coast — was processing 335,000 barrels of oil each day. It was Continue Reading
Ten U.S. oil refineries, including six in Texas, released the cancer-causing chemical benzene in concentrations that exceeded federal limits last year, according to government data published by the green group Continue Reading
Greenhouse gas emissions from EU power plants declined more sharply in 2019 than in any year since at least 1990, German think-tank Agora Energiewende said Wednesday. Receive daily email alerts, Continue Reading
Cleaning up dirty air might sometimes make things worse Imaginechina Limited/Alamy Cities tackling one major air pollutant risk inadvertently making things worse by fuelling the growth of another, potentially more Continue Reading
A multi-billion dollar boom in petrochemical plants proposed along the U.S. Gulf Coast could pump as much greenhouse gas into the air as 131 coal-fired power plants by 2030, according Continue Reading
