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July 29, 2024 4:28 PM

US targets nitrous oxide in new phase of climate fight

The Biden administration on Tuesday announced it would seek to curb U.S. emissions of powerful industrial greenhouse gases such as nitrous oxide as it enters a new phase in the national strategy to fight climate change under the Paris agreement. The focus on industrial gases follows U.S. measures to reduce methane emissions, which yielded an international campaign to get other countries to make big cuts as well as domestic reductions. Like methane, nitrous oxide is a shorter-lived but potent s...

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