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- Chances Low for Climate Law
- January 29, 2010
By Bill Polits
Since the middle of last week, bad news continues to pour in for the backers of climate legislation.
The election of Republican Scott Brown to replace ...
Continue- Copenhagen Assessment by State Department
- January 15, 2010
By Bill Polits
As reported by Tom Cortina, Executive Director of the Halon Alternatives Research Corporation (HARC), the US State Department held a briefing last week to discuss the results of December’s Copenhagen climate summit. The briefing was hosted by Jona ...
Continue- Bad Gas Spurs FAA Action
- January 05, 2010
By Chris Dieter
The Federal Aviation Administration today published an Airworthiness Directive (AD) that requires users of certain Halon 1211 fire extinguishers to take the following action within 90 days of January 20, 2010 (by April 20, 2010) due to safety concerns stemming from contaminated exti ...
Continue- Copenhagen Hampers Climate Bill
- December 24, 2009
By Bill Polits
You had to be sitting under a rock the past two weeks not to know that the UNFCCC’s Copenhagen conference was an embarrassing failure for everyone concerned with climate change and the regulation of greenhouse gases world-wide – so ...
Continue- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- November 26, 2009
By Bill Polits
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two arms of the United Nations: the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). One of the main activities of the IPCC is to publish reports related to the ...
Continue- No Climate Deal will be Cut in Copenhagen
- November 17, 2009
By Bill Polits
At a hastily arranged sideshow to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore last Sunday morning, world leaders announced that there does not remain enough time before the Copenhagen global climate conference next month to craft a substantial international agreement on ...
Continue- No Climate Bill in 2009
- November 13, 2009
By Bill Polits
Despite the unusual push by Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works chairman Barbara Boxer to push the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733) out of committee against a Republican boycott of the proceedings, the word on the street is that the climate bill wil ...
Continue- UNFCCC
- November 05, 2009
By Bill Polits
With the current flurry of climate change activity from the legislative branch to the international stage, I thought it might be a good idea to step back a bit and look at the role of the main international body governing climate change mitigation strategies, the United Nations Frame ...
Continue- Congress May Give HFCs a Pass
- October 27, 2009
By Bill Polits
The “Chairman’s Mark” of S. 1733, the senate’s climate and energy bill, entitled the “Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act” was published on Friday, Oct. 23, and is the most recent version of this bill. The Senate Committee on Environment and P ...
Continue- Don't Blow-Off Halon!
- October 20, 2009
By Bill Polits
A lot of end-users have written-off halon as a viable choice for their current fire suppression needs. Rumors circulate, saying that halon is toxic, that halon has been outlawed. Then people have questions: is halon available? Does it take away the oxygen in the room? And for every q ...
Continue- Companies Resign from US Chamber over Climate Stance
- October 12, 2009
By Bill Polits
On October 5th, Apple became the latest in a string of large firms to withdraw from the United States Chamber of Commerce over the Chamber’s stance on climate policy. Since late September, three large utilities – Pacific Gas & Electric, PNM Resources and Excelon have resi ...
Continue- EPA Rules to Regulate Carbon
- October 07, 2009
By Bill Polits
Last week the Obama administration announced that it is moving forward to allow the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions of the country’s largest ...
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