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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
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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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Top Climate, Air and Water Polluters Named in Latest Toxic 100, Greenhouse 100 Lists


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AMHERST, Mass. – Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) today published the latest editions of its lists of the top corporate air and water polluters and top greenhouse gas emitters in the United States, based on the most recent data available from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Toxic 100 Air and Toxic 100 Water Indexes rank U.S. industrial polluters using the EPA Toxics Release Inventory, and the Greenhouse 100 Index ranks U.S. companies by their emissions responsible for global climate change according to the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The PERI Indexes also include environmental justice indicators to assess impacts on low-income people and minorities. ....

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