ozone depleting substance News
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Commission welcomes agreement in Parliament on ozone layer
The Commission welcomes the vote today by the European Parliament that confirms the first reading agreement reached between Parliament and Council on reinforcing ozone legislation. The agreement comes less than a year after the Commission's proposal was presented. In addition to updating current legislation on the protection of the ozone layer in light of scientific developments, the new ...
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Ozone depleting substance found to be rising
Measurements made at NIWA’s atmospheric research laboratory at Lauder are a key component in an article in the latest edition of one of the world’s most prestigious scientific journals, Nature. The international team of scientists, including NIWA researchers, Dan Smale and John Robinson, based their findings on measurements from a network of stations across the globe, including Lauder ...
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Statement by NSC Spokesperson Ned Price on the U.S. Delegation for the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol
EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will promote U.S. climate and environmental goals by leading the U.S. delegation to the Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol, which will take place November 1-5 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Administrator McCarthy will also meet with key counterparts while in Dubai. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is a global agreement ...
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Compound Allowed as Alternative to Ozone-Depleting Chemicals for Specific Uses
Washington, D.C. – Through its Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Program EPA is allowing the use of n-propyl bromide, a nonflammable organic solvent, as an alternative to ozone-depleting substances in metals, electronics, and precision cleaning. EPA is also proposing to allow the use of n-propyl bromide (nPB) in specific coatings applications and to prohibit its use in aerosol solvents ...
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European Commission proposes to revise the regulation on ozone-depleting substance
The European Commission recently presented a proposal to revise the current legislation on the protection of the ozone layer. The revision is intended to simplify the current legislation and reflect the progress made in phasing out ozone-depleting substances in the European Union, to allow the EU to continue leading the global battle to protect and restore the ozone layer. Despite the good ...
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Measures taken to help accelerate the phase out of ozone depleting chemicals
EPA is taking the next step to eliminate harmful hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) emissions, which are ozone-depleting substances and potent greenhouse gases. “EPA is leading the way and working with the global community in helping to protect the environment for future generations with the phase out of HCFCs,” said Robert J. Meyers, principal deputy assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Air ...
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N2O: Not one of the usual suspects
Nitrous oxide is better known to the public for inducing giggles in dentists’ offices than for wreaking havoc on Earth’s protective ozone layer. It bears little resemblance to the perpetrators of ozone-layer destruction currently regulated under the international Montreal Protocol agreement— those chemicals all contain chlorine or bromine atoms, unlike nitrous oxide. But now that global actions ...
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191 Countries Work Together to Heal the Ozone Layer
(Washington, D.C.) The Earth's ozone layer is on track to heal, thanks to the work of dozens of countries that signed a landmark international environmental agreement initiated 20 years ago. Known as the 'Montreal Protocol,' this ambitious treaty requires countries to phase out production and use of compounds that deplete ozone in the stratosphere. Initially signed by 24 countries Sept.16, ...
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Massachusetts grocery store sets new national environmental benchmark
WASHINGTON – Star Market at Chestnut Hill in Newton, Mass. is the first grocery store in the nation to receive the EPA’s GreenChill Partnership platinum store award. The advanced refrigeration technology in the new store, which is part of the Shaw’s line of supermarkets, significantly reduces its impact on climate change and the stratospheric ozone layer by cutting the use of refrigerants by 85 ...
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Navy settles environmental violations at Naval Station Norfolk
A settlement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Navy will help reduce potentially harmful discharges of ozone-depleting substances and ensure the safe storage and disposal of hazardous waste at the Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia, where EPA alleges environmental violations occurred. Under the settlement, the Navy will pay an $83,900 penalty for violations of the Clean ...
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Statement from EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy on Decision Reached at the 27th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol / Decision Puts World on Path to 2016 Amendment to Phase Down HFCs
Today, countries across the world took the historic step to work together on a 2016 Amendment to the Montreal Protocol to reduce the production and consumption of harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), greenhouse gases that can be up to 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide in contributing to climate change. A 2016 amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs will achieve substantial ...
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U.S. EPA settles with Carrier Guam for $63,922 for illegal importation of ozone-depleting substances
(10/01/07) HONOLULU – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently reached a settlement with Carrier Guam, of Tamuning, a refrigeration and heating equipment services company, for allegedly importing refrigerants regulated by the Clean Air Act. The company imported 32,356 kilograms of hydrochlorofluorocarbon, an ozone-depleting substance. The EPA’s stratospheric ozone protection regulations ...
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Europe successfully phasing out known ozone layer-harming chemicals
The report 'Ozone depleting substances 2013' has been published by the EEA to coincide with the International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer. It covers the chemicals' production, destruction, import and export. Over the last few decades, chemicals known to harm the ozone layer have been successfully substituted in most parts of the world since 1989 when the Montreal Protocol came ...
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Chinese Customs Officers Train to Detect Environmental Crimes
Shanghai, China – Specialized training to help customs officers deal with environmental crimes is being intensified in the Asia Pacific region with help from experts in China. Worldwide, environmental crime and illegal trade is, by some estimates, valued at more than US$100 billion a year. The initiative, involving the UN Environment Programme, UNEP, and the secretariats of the multilateral ...
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EPA Honors Best-of-the-Best Ozone Protection Award Winners
(Washington, D.C. – September 20, 2007) Excellence in protecting the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer is the tie that binds the world’s environmental advocates, skin cancer prevention experts, scientists, farmers, industry, and the military. Today, EPA is presenting the 2007 Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards in honor of the 20-year anniversary of the signing of the ...
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International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer
INTERNATIONAL DAY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE OZONE LAYER – 16TH SEPTEMBER This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer. The theme for this year’s celebration is ‘30 years of healing the ozone together’.The International Ozone Day is an annual event that commemorates the date of the signing, in 1987, of the ...
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EPA honors climate and ozone layer protection award winners
EPA is recognizing the achievements of more than 40 individuals, organizations and companies actively contributing to the restoration and protection of the Earth’s ozone layer and climate system. “To confront urgent environmental issues, we’re counting on the types of ideas and innovations that this year’s winners developed,” said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. “Recognizing and encouraging ...
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US$490m pledged in the fight to protect the ozone layer
The US made further progress protecting the ozone layer through successful agreements at the 20th meeting of the parties to the Montreal Protocol in Doha, Qatar. Developed and developing countries agreed to add US$490 million to the Montreal Protocol’s Multilateral Fund for the next three years. This will help phase out chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and replacement hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), ...
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Damaging the environment should be a criminal offence, says Euro MPs
Seriously damaging the environment should be made a criminal offence in all EU Member States, so as to ensure that EU legislation is properly enforced, says the Legal Affairs Committee in a co-decision report, approved on Tuesday, on a proposed EU directive on the protection of the environment through criminal law. MEPs in committee agreed that in principle governments should apply criminal ...
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Call for nominations for U.S. EPA Montreal Protocol Awards
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is soliciting award nominations by March 1, 2010, for individuals, teams and organizations that have made significant contributions to ozone layer protection. The stratospheric ozone layer prevents excessive harmful ultraviolet radiation from reaching people, plants and animals. The Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer is ...
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