How a Successful EPA Effort to Reduce Climate-Warming ‘Immortal’ Chemicals Stalled

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By By Phil McKennaSep 21, 2022, 10:02 am144 pts
Now, former EPA officials are calling for a redoubling of efforts to reduce or eliminate the gases, which remain in the atmosphere for up to 50,000 years. By Phil McKenna When Sally Rand, a former EPA official, used to meet with industry executives to discuss an obscure, but incredibly potent and long-lived…

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