California the culprit for spike in little-known greenhouse gas more potent than CO2 | State revealed as America’s overwhelming emitter of sulfuryl fluoride, used by $4.2bn pest-control industry to kill termites

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1. [State policy is to basically ignore it](https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/Pesticide%20Petition%20Response_approved02242023.pdf)

2. It’s bc Southern California has a species of termite that is very hard to get rid of without full building fumigation. Here is a link to the cool Nature paper the article probably highlight but I didn’t read the article lol:

   https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01294-x