ozone-depleting substance emissions News
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The urgency of drawing down N2O emissions (but also some good news)
Nitrous oxide is the most significant ozone-depleting substance emission and the third most important greenhouse gas released into the atmosphere. Recently Oene Oenema, Carolien Kroeze, Jan Peter Lesschen, Lin Ma and Gerard Velthof (Alterra and Wageningen University) contributed to a United Nations Environment Programme synthesis report that addresses the urgency of drawing down N2O emissions. ...
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100,000th Refrigerator Recycled as Part of GE Agreement with Appliance Recycling Centers of America
This week, GE, in collaboration with Appliance Recycling Centers of America (ARCA), reached a milestone of 100,000 refrigerators and freezers recycled through North America’s only UNTHA Recycling Technology (URT) System. ARCA’s (Nasdaq: ARCI) URT machine, a unique 40-foot-tall engineering marvel, recovers approximately 95 percent of the insulating ...
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US Navy Awards ENSR International $3 Million Multi-Year Environmental Services Contract
Untitled Document US Navy Awards ENSR International $3 Million Multi-Year Environmental Services Contract ENSR to Provide Broad Air Quality and Environmental Compliance Services Across Northeast US Navy Facilities. ENSR International has been awarded a 5-Year Environmental Services Contract by the US Navy Engineering Facility, Northeast (EFANE) division for its ...
By AECOM
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GE partners with EPA on responsible appliance disposal (RAD) program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and landfill waste
GE Appliances & Lighting became the first appliance manufacturer to partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program to help protect the ozone layer and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). The EPA's voluntary program focuses on refrigeration appliance recycling best practices, including the recovery of foam in used ...
By 3BL Media
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GE partners with EPA on responsible appliance disposal (RAD) program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and landfill waste
Agreement with Appliance Recycling Centers of America (ARCA) will reduce the typical landfill waste of a refrigerator by approximately 85 percent by weight Innovative technology being used by ARCA and GE is the first in the U.S. GE Appliances & Lighting today became the first appliance manufacturer to partner with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their Responsible Appliance ...
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Calculating carbon emissions
Refrigerant Gas & Fugitive Emissions Compliance Includes CO2 Calculations If you manage a facility using a refrigeration and air-conditioning (RAC) system or heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC-R) system, it’s time to comply with federal and state environmental laws regarding carbon emissions. To help reduce greenhouse gases, the law requires calculating carbon emissions. This ...
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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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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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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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United States Reaches Settlement with Safeway To Reduce Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Substances Nationwide
In a settlement agreement with the United States, Safeway, the nation’s second largest grocery store chain, has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty and implement a corporate-wide plan to significantly reduce its emissions of ozone-depleting substances from refrigeration equipment at 659 of its stores nationwide, estimated to cost approximately $4.1 million, announced the U.S. ...
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Gary Bartman, President of Turner Design Hydrocarbon Instruments Announced to Speak at the Ship Air Emissions Management 2014 seminar in Long Beach, CA
The President of Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Gary Bartman, will be one of the guest speakers at the Ship Air Emissions Management summit 2014. The seminar will take place on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA from October 28-30, 2014. MARPOL Annex VI under the International Maritime Organization sets limits on sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from ship exhausts and ...
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EPA reaches settlement with Safeway to reduce emissions of ozone-depleting refrigerants nationwide
Safeway, the nation’s second largest grocery store chain, has agreed to pay a $600,000 civil penalty and implement a corporate-wide plan to significantly reduce its emissions of ozone-depleting substances from refrigeration equipment at 659 of its stores nationwide, estimated to cost approximately $4.1 million, in a settlement agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ...
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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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Sears Joins EPA to Help Protect the Planet – One Old Ice Box at a Time
(Chicago, Ill. - Oct. 18, 2007) What do your old refrigerator and freezer have to do with the stratospheric ozone layer and climate change? Plenty. That's why Sears Home Services is taking the lead among retailers to join the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's voluntary Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program. The program promotes environmentally responsible disposal of household ...
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Gary Bartman, President of Turner Design Hydrocarbon Instruments Announced to Speak at the Ship Air Emissions Management 2014 seminar in Long Beach
The President of Turner Designs Hydrocarbon Instruments, Gary Bartman, will be one of the guest speakers at the Ship Air Emissions Management summit 2014. The seminar will take place on the Queen Mary in Long Beach, CA from October 28-30, 2014. MARPOL Annex VI under the International Maritime Organization sets limits on sulphur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions from ship exhausts and prohibits ...
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NOAA study shows nitrous oxide now top ozone-depleting emission
Nitrous oxide has now become the largest ozone-depleting substance emitted through human activities, and is expected to remain the largest throughout the 21st century, NOAA scientists say in a new study. For the first time, this study has evaluated nitrous oxide emissions from human activities in terms of their potential impact on Earth’s ozone layer. As chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which have ...
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WMO Greenhouse Gas Bulletin 2007: Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels reach new highs
Levels of climate-warming greenhouse gases continue to increase in the atmosphere. In 2007, global concentrations of carbon dioxide again reached the highest levels ever recorded. These latest numbers, published today in the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) 2007 Greenhouse Gas Bulletin, continue the trend of rising emissions of greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. ...
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EPA Welcomes Delaware Health and Social Services to Responsible Appliance Disposal Team
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today welcomed the Delaware Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) as the first state partner in the EPA’s Responsible Appliance Disposal (RAD) Program, a nation-wide effort to protect the ozone layer and reduce greenhouse gases by properly disposing old refrigerators, freezers and other appliances. “By joining EPA’s RAD ...
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ARCA Advanced Processing, LLC (AAP) Receives Pennsylvania 2012 Governor`s Award for Environmental Excellence
Appliance Recycling Centers of America, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARCI) today announced that ARCA Advanced Processing, LLC (AAP) has received a Pennsylvania 2012 Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence for the installation of the first UNTHA Recycling Technology (URT) plant in the United States. The Governor's Awards for Environmental Excellence are presented each year by the Pennsylvania Department of ...
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Europe using less ozone-damaging chemicals
Europe has made significant progress in phasing out chemicals which damage the ozone layer, according to a report from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The report considers production and use of more than 200 chemicals which damage the planet’s ozone layer, which are controlled by the Montreal Protocol and EU legislation. In the 1970s and 1980s, scientists established that certain ...
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