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Cutting Non-CO2 Pollutants Can Delay Abrupt Climate Change; The Fast Action Climate Agenda

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HFCs are powerful greenhouse gases originally developed as substitutes for ozone-depleting chemicals. A binding legal agreement exists that can cut HFCs now—the Montreal Protocol ozone treaty—and many alternatives to HFCs have already been developed and are waiting for the right regulatory incentive from the Montreal Protocol to be deployed.

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EPA proposes new standards to reduce methane and VOCs emissions from oil and gas industry

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The gas and hydrocarbons can then be treated and used or sold, avoiding the waste of natural resources that cannot be renewed. Those benefits include reductions in health effects related to fine particle pollution, ozone and air toxics, along with improvements in visibility.

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