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Collecting, organizing, and reporting of refrigerant gas data is challenging, the complexity of system auditing is confusing, and it remains difficult to remain in compliance with regulations. Learn how-to survive managing your refrigerants.
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Refrigerant Tracker is useful for any organization with systems containing refrigerant gas. Our refrigerant experts are knowledgeable of the EPA regulations and understand the complexity of keeping accurate refrigerant usage records.
The US Clean Air Act is a regulation that spells out the EPA's role in air quality, especially in protecting the ozone layer and the tracking and reporting of Greenhouse Gases.
The EPA will issue fines to commercial facilities that violate the regulations or are not complying with refrigerant tracking and monitory reporting.
With continued tracking of carbon emissions and the pending mandatory reporting of carbon, organizations of all sizes maintaining refrigeration systems with more than 50 pounds of refrigerant gas will need to maintain detailed service records. |
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Ozone Depleting Substances (ODS) are substances that threaten the environment by depleting the earth’s stratosphere. The common ODS today are hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs). These substances are organic compounds which consist of chlorine, fluorine, carbon and hydrogen.
Common uses today of these substances are solvents for cleaning and refrigerant in air conditioners, also known as Freon. For the most part, these substances are harmless to humans, but the increased usage of these substances over the past 20 years have rapidly caused the depletion of the ozone layer. The Montreal Protocol, now in place for many, years has effectively address harmful ODS substances.
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The Kyoto Protocol is an international agreement that was created out of the non-binding United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC is an international treaty that was created to encourage participating countries to stabilize the level of greenhouse gases in the earth's atmosphere. It was created out of the UN “Earth Summit” in 1992. As the UNFCCC is a non-binding international agreement, it was decided that at a later date updates called protocols would be created with specific limits on greenhouse gas emissions. The Kyoto Protocol is the first major update to be put into effect.
The Kyoto protocol was created with the specific aim of having all ratifying member countries make commitments to reduce greenhouse gas production. Overall 183 countries have ratified the protocol and put it into practice. Thirty-seven industrialized nations and the European Union (Annex B countries) were given the more defined target of reducing greenhouse gases an average of 5% compared to 1990 levels. Each country has a different specific target to reach so that on the whole a 5% reduction is achieved between the specified period of 2008-2012.
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) determines the levels of pollutants that are allowed in the air throughout the country. Originally passed in 1963, the Clean Air Act (CAA) was amended in 1970, 1977, and 1990 to increase regulations and introduce new initiatives to further the goal of improving air quality in the United States.
In 1970, Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and passed the Clean Air Act, giving the federal government authority to clean up air pollution in this country. Since then, EPA and states, tribes, local governments, industry, and environmental groups have worked to establish a variety of programs to reduce air pollution levels across America.
Environmental Protection Agency, to ensure that states retain the right to reduce global climate change emissions. The health, environmental, and economic impacts of air pollution are significant. Each day, air pollution causes thousands of illnesses leading to lost days at work and school. Air pollution also reduces agricultural crop and commercial forest yields by billions.
• U.S. Clean Air Articles
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