Broken Ventilators Add Momentum to âRight to Repairâ Movement
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(Bloomberg Businessweek) A recall of an electrosurgical device wouldnât normally cause panic for Ilir Kullolli. As the director of clinical technology and biomedical engineering at a hospital in California, his job is to calmly orchestrate service and repairs so doctorsâand patientsânever notice when a piece of technology is down.
(Bloomberg Businessweek) A recall of an electrosurgical device wouldnât normally cause panic for Ilir Kullolli. As the director of clinical technology and biomedical engineering at a hospital in California, his job is to calmly orchestrate service and repairs so doctorsâand patientsânever notice when a piece of technology is down.
An Unusual Coalition of Environmental and Industry Groups Is Calling on the EPA to Quickly Phase Out Super-Polluting Refrigerants
The hydroflourocarbons, or HFCs, are potent greenhouse gases and easily replaced in air conditioners and refrigerators.
Air conditioning units on the side of a building. Credit: Jason Larkin/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images
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A coalition of U.S. manufacturers and environmental organizations is calling on the federal government to quickly phase out the worst climate super-polluting chemicals currently used in air conditioners, refrigerators and other appliances, as well as in aerosols and foam insulation.
The five, closely related petitions filed with the agency on Tuesday mark an unusual case in which business and environmental interests have aligned to address climate change. Specifically, the groups are calling on the EPA to ban the use of certain hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), chemical refrigerants used in air c
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Colorado, environmental groups and industry associations petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency on Monday to phase down, under a new law enacted in December, the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in air conditioning and other applications.
The state and the groups, including the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) as well as the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers, called on the EPA in five separate petitions to begin restricting, under the December 2020 American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act, the use of HFCs for uses where there are safer alternatives.
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