Joint Letter to President Trump Urging the Rejection of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol

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As noted in the letter below, the Montreal Protocol was created originally to replace the use of certain refrigerants with hydrofluorocarbons (HFC) in air conditioners and refrigerators because of the belief that those refrigerants were depleting the ozone layer. The Kigali Amendment now would require that HFC’s be replaced with hydrofluoro-olefins (HFO). HFO’s cost ten […]

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John Kerry, Refrigerants, Global Warming, and Isis—What Did He Say, and Is It True?

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Various news sources had a heyday when Secretary of State John Kerry made comments July 22 about HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), the chemicals used in many air conditioners and refrigerators around the world, calling them a major risk because they promote global warming. Conservative media tended to trumpet the news as one more instance of a patently

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