By Phil McKenna and James Bruggers
Inside Climate News
LOUISVILLE, Ky. A chemical plant here that makes a raw material for everything from Teflon to lubricants used on the International Space Station also appears to do more damage to the climate than all of this city’s passenger vehicles.
The Chemours Louisville Works along the banks of the Ohio River is the nation’s largest emitter of a climate super-pollutant known as hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23).
As a greenhouse gas, the chemical is 12,400 times more potent than carbon dioxide, the primary chemical compound responsible for warming the planet, and could be eliminated with low-cost, existing technology.
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A BORDERS MSP has called for a mass coronavirus vaccination centre to be set up in the region to help the roll-out programme “move up a gear”. Figures from Tuesday (February 2) show Scotland has the lowest percentage of people aged 16 and over who have received their first jab across the four UK nations (13.45 per cent). Rachael Hamilton, the Scottish Parliament representative for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, says she has called for a mass vaccination centre in the Borders to help with the coronavirus vaccine roll-out. “NHS staff, volunteers and GPs have all been working hard to administer the vaccine, but the SNP government in Edinburgh must offer more resources,” said Mrs Hamilton, of the Scottish Conservatives.