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EXCLUSIVE: A Single Chemical Plant in Louisville Emits a Super-Pollutant That Does More Climate Damage Than Every Car in the City
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As the world's big banks and asset managers confront their role in fueling the climate crisis, they're continuing to pour dollars into high-carbon agriculture that is often connected to deforestation in ecosystems that are critical carbon sinks. Within a decade, livestock production alone could consume nearly half the world’s carbon budget—the amount of greenhouse gas the world can emit without blowing past global climate targets.
Also this week, an Inside Climate News exclusive shows the total global warming effect of a chemical plant in Louisville, Kentucky exceeds that of the greenhouse gas emissions from all the cars on the city’s roads. The plant emits vast quantities of a relatively easy to mitigate climate super-pollutant thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide.
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