{"id":1350,"date":"2020-09-21T06:56:30","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2020-09-21T06:56:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T11:56:30","slug":"senate-reached-an-agreement-to-phase-out-hydrofluorocarbons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/09\/21\/senate-reached-an-agreement-to-phase-out-hydrofluorocarbons\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate reached an agreement to phase out hydrofluorocarbons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1351\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-7.54.23-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1032\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-7.54.23-AM.png 1032w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-7.54.23-AM-289x300.png 289w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-7.54.23-AM-768x796.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2020\/09\/Screen-Shot-2020-09-21-at-7.54.23-AM-988x1024.png 988w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1032px) 100vw, 1032px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Senate Republicans and Democrats reached an agreement last week on a plan to phase out chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which contribute to climate change. The plan would cut the use of HFCs 85 percent by 2035, a target that is in line with an international treaty called the Kigali Amendment \u2014 which the Trump administration has refused to join.<\/p>\n<p>HFCs are the secret sauce in air conditioners and refrigerators that actually cool the air. The refrigerants cycle between liquid and gas as they flow through these appliances. If there\u2019s a leak, they are emitted into the atmosphere, where they can be thousands of times more powerful at warming the planet than carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>There are already less-damaging alternatives to HFCs available. Phasing them out would create thousands of jobs building new appliances, according to industry groups, and could help the world avoid an estimated 0.5 degree C (0.9 degree F) of warming. The bipartisan plan will be included as an amendment to an upcoming energy bill, although it\u2019s unclear whether it will make it through Congress or past Trump\u2019s pen.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/beacon\/senate-tells-coolants-to-cool-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans and Democrats reached an agreement last week on a plan to phase out chemicals called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs, which contribute to climate change. The plan would cut the use of HFCs 85 percent by 2035, a target that <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2020\/09\/21\/senate-reached-an-agreement-to-phase-out-hydrofluorocarbons\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}