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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back to the stone age
These guys are on a crusade against civilization.
E xtremist
P ontificating
A (expletive deleted, in the plural sense)
Candles and caves.
They should’ve shot Wickard and sent Filburn to Congress.
And if any EPAers interfere, we're allowed to beat them till they puke blood?
I'm excited!
I hate these people. As a public service, hackers should publish their home addresses.
Why not wait until you've won the fight to clean up the millions of gallons of polluted water you unleashed on the environment out in Durango, Colorado?
But, if they insist on doing it, they can start by removing the A/C from EPA HQ in Washington. Let's see what they think about the issue come next August.
I support the EPA doing without air conditioners next summer.
The director also announced that bidding for the EPA Headquarters Air Conditioning Removal Project (EPAHACRP) generally referred to as E- Crap will start within the next few years.
There is no reason people need air conditioning. We got by just fine in the 1800’s without them.
Well, I’m with them. I covered up my air conditioner last month and it’s staying that way until at least June of next year. Because I believe in Saving The Planet, that’s why. Also to keep the snow off.
I’m guessing that the EPA has already removed Air Conditioners from all their builds and homes of their employees
First, I want to hear the whole federal gubmint shuts off theirs.
Will the EPA lead by example?
I think not.
Global warming as a scare has been losing ground precipitously of late, so they’re dredging up the ozone scare, hoping we’ve forgotten that was also a hoax.
The next President must somehow throw all these insane LIB asshats out of the EPA. Start by cutting off all the AC (and heating) to their plush offices.
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