Posted on 11/03/2015 4:05:46 PM PST by lowbridge
EPA Chief Gina McCarthy wants the world to stop using hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioners and other consumers products as part of President Barack Obama's plan to fight global warming.
McCarthy is so determined to make this happen, she's taking the lead role at an ongoing United Nations summit to expand the current global treaty covering ozone-depleting substances. The EPA chief hopes that her agency's recent HFC regulations will convince other countries to join the U.S. in limiting the chemicals.
"Because of the importance of taking aggressive action on these chemicals to achieve global climate goals, I will be leading the United States delegation at that meeting," McCarthy wrote in an oped for The Guardian.
"Over the past year, the US Environmental Protection Agency has completed four separate actions that both expand the list of safer alternatives to HFCs and prohibit them from certain uses in the refrigeration air conditioning, foam, and aerosol sectors where safer alternatives such as hydrofluoroolefins (HFOs), hydrocarbons and lower-polluting blends are available," McCarthy wrote.
"Solutions are here, and it's time to amend the Montreal Protocol to reflect that," McCarthy wrote, adding that phasing out HFCs would avert 0.5 degrees Celsius of global warming by the end of the century.
The EPA unveiled its latest HFC regulation earlier this month to regulate how refrigerants are handled and ban such chemicals where "climate-friendly" alternatives are available. The EPA was joined by the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense in issuing rules to phase out HFC use wherever possible.
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We will have a reintroduction to the slave waving a fan over the Obama Poobahs!
Alahwahoo Wackbar!
I think you misunderstand.
They need assistance with "coming to their Greenie Jesus", and we peasants should be there to help. :)
They're going to blow our tax dollars anyway - why not on HVAC repair bills?
Bureaucrats can't bureaucratize if they're shivering or boiling, n'est-ce pas?
Not that I'm actually advocating anything like that - it's just a "thought experiment"...
I've been whacked a few times for not including it. Sometimes nobody wins. ;-D
As the EPA works to that end, turn off their air conditioners in DC...in July.
That will put a quick stop to this foolishness.
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