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President Biden’s Leaders Summit on Climate has wrapped up. The event saw world leaders highlighting their countries’ respective climate commitments, calling for collective action, and attending breakout sessions designed to foster dialogue around climate finance and technological innovation, among other topics. After Vice President Harris and President Biden opened the summit, Secretary of State Antony Blinken offered further introductory remarks before the trio joined Climate Envoy John Kerry at a horseshoe-shaped table to watch speeches from the world leaders in attendance. Then fifteen additional cabinet heads, political appointees, and special advisors spoke or moderated sessions during over the next two days. These U.S. officials comprise the core leadership team tasked with implementing the administration’s “whole of government” climate strategy. Below, we introduce these key members in the order in which they first appeared during the Summ
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Originally published on May 3, 2021 1:08 pm
The Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on a powerful class of greenhouse gases that are used in refrigerators, air conditioners and building insulation. On Monday, the agency announced a new regulation that would dramatically decrease production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, over the next 15 years.
It s the first concrete regulatory step the Biden administration has taken to tackle planet-warming emissions since the president announced ambitious goals 10 days ago to cut U.S. emissions by half in the next decade.
When they get into the atmosphere, hydrofluorocarbons are extremely good at trapping heat much better than carbon dioxide. Some HFCs can linger in the atmosphere for 250 years or more. Total U.S. emissions of fluorinated gases, of which HFCs are a subset, have been increasing steadily in the last three decades because of ever-increasing demand for refrigeration and air conditi
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Biden administration to propose first rule requiring cut in climate pollutants Source: By Juliet Eilperin and Dino Grandoni, Washington Post • Posted: Monday, May 3, 2021
The new Environmental Protection Agency rule targets hydrofluorocarbons, greenhouse gases that are thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan, pictured in Wilmington, Del., on Dec. 19, supports the Biden administration’s climate plan. (Jonathan Newton/The Washington Post)
The Environmental Protection Agency will propose a rule Monday aimed at sharply cutting the use and production of a class of powerful greenhouse gases used widely in refrigeration and air conditioning. The proposal marks the first time President Biden’s administration has used the power of the federal government to mandate a cut in climate pollution.
In âcritical and totally doable first step,â EPA proposes phasedown of climate super-pollutants
With this rule to reduce hydrofluorocarbons, âEPA is taking another significant step under President Bidenâs ambitious agenda to address the climate crisis,â said the agencyâs administrator.
As the Biden administration faces pressure to step up its climate action, the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday announced its first rule to tackle the global emergencyâa proposal to reduce planet-heating chemicals commonly used in refrigeration and air conditioning by 85% over the next 15 years.
The EPA’s proposed rule on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs)âwhich are thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxideâcomes in response to the American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act, which Congress passed in December as part of a Covid-19 relief and spending package.
EPA Moves To Cut A Group Of Powerful Greenhouse Gases
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The Environmental Protection Agency is cracking down on a powerful class of greenhouse gases that are used in refrigerators, air conditioners and building insulation. On Monday, the agency announced a new regulation that would dramatically decrease production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, over the next 15 years.
It s the first concrete regulatory step the Biden administration has taken to tackle planet-warming emissions since the president announced ambitious goals 10 days ago to cut U.S. emissions by half in the next decade.
When they get into the atmosphere, hydrofluorocarbons are extremely good at trapping heat â much better than carbon dioxide. Some HFCs can linger in the atmosphere for 250 years or more. Total U.S. emissions of fluorinated gases, of which HFCs are a subset, have been increasing steadily in the last three decades because of ever-increasing demand for refri