Phil McKenna

2 weeks ago | foreignpolicy.com | Lili Pike |Phil McKenna

United Nations Climate Change China Lili Pike The nonstick pan has become one of climate change’s stickiest problems in recent years. Teflon, the magical chemical that has allowed fried eggs to glide off the pan onto breakfast plates for decades, is derived from the chemical HCFC-22.

2 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Phil McKenna |Lili Pike

This article was co-reported with Foreign Policy. A climate super pollutant thousands of times more effective at warming the planet than carbon dioxide is being released at a rate far higher than countries around the world have acknowledged, raising a fraught question: What are they going to do about it?

2 weeks ago | insideclimatenews.org | Phil McKenna

The “Hay Capital of the World” may soon also be the clean aluminum capital of America. The state of Oklahoma and Emirates Global Aluminum, which produces aluminum with low associated climate pollution, announced plans to build a $4 billion aluminum smelter in Inola, Oklahoma, an agricultural community east of Tulsa heretofore best known for its Bluestem Prairie hay.

2 weeks ago | ecotopical.com | Phil McKenna

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1 month ago | insideclimatenews.org | Phil McKenna

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is demanding information from a small geoengineering startup company it says is launching pollution into the air.