carbon pollution
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China Just Made A Major Carbon Neutrality Promise
As a way to avoid making commitments to address climate change, U.S. leaders will often make the bad faith argument that their actions aren’t as important as those of the world’s top carbon emitter, China. Well, America, I hate to break it to you, but China just massively upped its climate commitments. Your move.
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We Need To Start Dealing With This Hidden Source Of Carbon Pollution
When it comes to planet-warming gases we need to worry about, carbon dioxide is at the top of the list. But the runner-up in the climate hall of infamy — methane — is turning out to be a bigger problem than we realised. A study published in Nature today estimates that global methane emissions from…
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
After seven years of political wrangling, President Obama has finally rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a proposed infrastructure project that would have carried 800,000 barrels of oil a day from the Canadian oil sands to the Gulf Coast.