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Study finds rising emissions of ozone-depleting CFC-11, banned by Montreal Protocol

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Emissions of one of the chemicals most responsible for the Antarctic ozone hole are on the rise, despite an international treaty that required an end to its production in 2010, a new study by researchers at NOAA and their colleagues shows. —NOAA scientist Stephen Montzka, lead author of the paper.

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Maersk calls for EU enforcement of reefer legislation, pushes its Supotec foam

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Maersk Container Industry (MCI) is calling for tougher enforcement of European environmental legislation designed to protect the Earth’s ozone layer and help prevent climate change. Current EU legislation bans the “import” or “placing on the market” of reefer containers with significant potential to damage the climate and ozone layer.

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California 2017 GHG inventory shows 1.2% total drop from 2016; transportation sector emissions up 1%

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Emissions from transportation sources were relatively constant from 2002 through 2007, declined through 2013, then increased by 9.0 The transportation sector represents tailpipe emissions from on-road vehicles and direct emissions from other off-road mobile sources. It does not include emissions from petroleum refineries and oil production.

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Stanford Professor Urges EPA to Include Black Carbon in Endangerment Finding

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Black carbon—soot—is a global-warming agent the immediate control of which will slow the demise of Arctic sea ice faster than will control of any other global-warming agent, Jacobson said. The first found that globally-emitted CO 2 increases US air pollution deaths by about 1,000 each year per 1.8 °F,

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US Climate Action Report to UN Projects 4% Growth in Total US GHG Emissions to 2020

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The United States released previous Climate Action Reports in 1994, 1997, 2002, and 2006. The Climate Action Report also used EPA’s Applied Dynamic Analysis of the Global Economy (ADAGE) model and projected that total US greenhouse gas emissions will gradually increase by about 18% between 2010 and 2050. US Fifth Climate Action Report.

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