Houston power plant emerges as dominant source of cloud-forming aerosols

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Jun 30, 2026, 12:00 pm50 ptsTrending
Research by atmospheric scientists at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and colleagues pinpointed an individual coal-fired power plant in Houston as the main source of particles most likely to encourage the formation of clouds around the metropolitan area.

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