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Louisville super-polluting chemical plant emits not 1, but 2 potent greenhouse gases


Louisville super-polluting chemical plant emits not 1, but 2 potent greenhouse gases
By Phil McKenna and James Bruggers
© James Bruggers/Inside Climate News
The Chemours chemical plant in Louisville is the nation s largest emitter of the climate super-pollutant HFC-23, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
LOUISVILLE, Ky.  The Chemours Louisville Works emits a chemical feedstock and a separate gas byproduct that do more damage to the climate than 750,000 passenger vehicles far more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s main industrial greenhouse gas inventory indicates. 
Chemours’ most harmful climate super-pollutant is the byproduct, hydrofluorocarbon-23 (HFC-23), a potent greenhouse gas that produces 12,400 times more warming than carbon dioxide, the main chemical compound responsible for climate change.   ....

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