EPA plan to phase down production of HFCs used in fridges, air conditioners should not stress consumers
Posted May 10, 2021
The EPA announced May 3, 2021, that it plans to phase down the use of hyrdofluorocarbons used in refrigeration and air conditioning. In this photo a crane lifts an old refrigerator to the chute of the recycling chipper on May 24, 2011, for recycling by JACO Environmental in Stow, Ohio.The Plain Dealer
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CLEVELAND, Ohio – After the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took steps last week to reduce the use of harmful hydrofluorocarbons, commonly found in refrigerators and air conditioners, one of the first things consumers wanted to know was how the changes will affect them.
Scott Denning received his bachelor s degree in geological sciences from the University of Maine in 1984, and his master s and Ph.D. degrees in atmospheric science from Colorado State University in 1993 and 1994. He studied radiometric geochronology, surface water geochemistry and mountain hydrology before becoming interested in global climate and biogeochemical dynamics. After a two-year postdoctoral appointment modeling global sources and sinks of atmospheric CO2, he spent two years as an assistant professor in the Donald Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He joined the Atmospheric Science faculty at Colorado State University in 1998, and served as director of education for CMMAP from 2006 to 2016.
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CBR ) – a leader in community bank performance and risk management solutions announced the appointment of Mr. Long T. Huynh as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer ( COO ).
Mr. Huynh joins CBR as Chief Operating Officer and will work closely with Mr. Jeff Rigsby, founder, President and CEO of CBR, on the Corporation s overall strategy and execution. Mr. Huynh will oversee the Company s performance and risk management solutions delivery, including product and service development, information technology, client success and related growth priorities. I am thrilled to be welcoming Long to CB Resource, said Mr. Rigsby. Long brings over two decades of leadership experience within the community bank industry. Most recently, as Executive Vice President and CFO for a community bank headquartered in downtown Los Angeles with assets exceeding $1.5 billion. Long has extensive leadership and management experience as a Chief Financial Officer in a highly
The Case Against Admissions Lotteries
The radical idea is appealing in theory but useless in practice.
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“In the interests of putting the concept of ‘equality of educational opportunity’ into practice, [colleges] might want to consider abandoning altogether the use of grades and tests in admissions, and instituting instead a lottery system for choosing among their applicants.” So wrote the eminent education scholar Alexander Astin in a
Scienceletter more than 50 years ago. Proposals for lottery admissions to college have surfaced countless times since then, appearing in the pages of
A key fact about nearly all these proposals is that they have been intended for America’s most selective institutions, not the nearly 600 four-year colleges and universities with open-door policies or the additional 700 with acceptance rates greater than 75 percent (as of 2018-19). A small number of institutions with acceptance rates below