Global Climate Change and Stratospheric Ozone Depletion: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Environmental Protection of the Committee on Environment and Public Works, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, July 30, 1991U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 79 pages |
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... EPA's Stratospheric Ozone Protection Advisory Committee and several of its Clean Air Act implementation subcommittees . With this perspective , I regret to say today that not enough is being done at either the interna- tional or the ...
... EPA's Stratospheric Ozone Protection Advisory Committee and several of its Clean Air Act implementation subcommittees . With this perspective , I regret to say today that not enough is being done at either the interna- tional or the ...
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... EPA's own consideration of accelerating the phase - outs under section 606 of the Clean Air Act . However , we do not believe that the policy development process should get ahead of the scien- tific and technical assessment framework ...
... EPA's own consideration of accelerating the phase - outs under section 606 of the Clean Air Act . However , we do not believe that the policy development process should get ahead of the scien- tific and technical assessment framework ...
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... EPA , usage in the first Protocol control year was approximately 23 percent less than that allowed by the Protocol . It is currently ex- pected , assuming EPA's rapid approval and acceptance of HFCs and HCFCs that the transition away ...
... EPA , usage in the first Protocol control year was approximately 23 percent less than that allowed by the Protocol . It is currently ex- pected , assuming EPA's rapid approval and acceptance of HFCs and HCFCs that the transition away ...
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... EPA's Green Lights Program . Mr. REINSTEIN . Exactly that kind of an issue is also in the Na- tional Energy Strategy and I believe that the Administration sup- ports improvements in this area . As I mentioned earlier , I do have a ...
... EPA's Green Lights Program . Mr. REINSTEIN . Exactly that kind of an issue is also in the Na- tional Energy Strategy and I believe that the Administration sup- ports improvements in this area . As I mentioned earlier , I do have a ...
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... EPA's proposed rule build on the voluntary efforts of the industry and environmental groups over the past few years in establishing the foundation of a recycling pro- gram . This effect is further reinforced by the CFC tax which has ...
... EPA's proposed rule build on the voluntary efforts of the industry and environmental groups over the past few years in establishing the foundation of a recycling pro- gram . This effect is further reinforced by the CFC tax which has ...
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accelerate actions added R&D Administration Agency agreement Air Act Amendments Alliance alternatives assessment atmospheric chlorine budget carbon dioxide CFC solvents CFCs and HCFCs Chairman chemicals chlorine chlorine concentrations CLAUSSEN Clean Air Act CO₂ CO2 emissions commitments Committee compounds concern Congress developing countries economic effective efficiency elimination energy energy-efficient lighting Environment environmental EPA's existing equipment FITZGERALD fuel funding for ozone gases Global Change global climate change global warming Green Lights greenhouse gas greenhouse gas emissions halons HCFCs HFCs impact increase industrialized countries IPCC issue MAX BAUCUS ment methyl chloroform million Montreal Protocol Nairobi Nairobi meeting NASA no-clean Northern Telecom ozone depletion ozone layer participation Parties percent phaseout potential proposals recycling reduce REINSTEIN scientific Senator BAUCUS Senator LIEBERMAN stratospheric ozone protection subcommittee substances substitute technology transfer tions U.S. industry U.S. SENATOR United worldwide
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Page 61 - The Parties should take precautionary measures to anticipate, prevent or minimize the causes of climate change and mitigate its adverse effects, where there are threats of serious or irreversible damage, lack of full scientific certainty should not be used as a reason for postponing such measures...
Page 55 - Determined to protect the ozone layer by taking precautionary measures to control equitably total global emissions of substances that deplete it, with the ultimate objective of their elimination on the basis of developments in scientific knowledge, taking into account technical and economic considerations and bearing in mind the developmental needs of developing countries...
Page 45 - Parties simply instructed the protocol's assessment panels to look at "the possibilities and difficulties of an earlier phaseout of the controlled substances, for example the implications of a 1997 phaseout." They also asked the panels to identify the areas where HCFCs are / the only suitable alternative, estimate the quantity of HCFCs that will be needed, and suggest a possible date for an HCFC phaseout. Since the Nairobi meeting, the protocol's Scientific Assessment Panel, including 80 of the world's...
Page 25 - A) emissions of greenhouse gases, a rate of increase of global mean temperature during the next century of about 0.3°C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2°C to 0.5°C per decade); this is greater than that seen over the past 10, 000 years.
Page 25 - ... temperature during the next century of about 0.3°C per decade (with an uncertainty range of 0.2°C to 0.5°C per decade) this is greater than that seen over the past 10,000 years. This will result in a likely increase in global mean temperature of about 1 °C above the present value by 2025 and 3°C before the end of the next century.
Page 48 - CFC tax is one of the most powerful tools Congress has created to protect the ozone layer. This economic instrument has successfully encouraged industry to adopt alternatives to CFCs and increase CFC recycling. In the short period since the tax took effect in 1990, US CFC production has dropped significantly. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, domestic CFC production is now 42 percent below the limit allowed by the Montreal Protocol, the international ozone protection agreement.
Page 43 - He are the US affiliate of Friends of the Earth International, a worldwide environmental network with member organizations in 38 countries. We greatly appreciate your invitation to appear here today to share our views on HR 2699, "The Stratospheric Ozone Protection Act of 1989.
Page 48 - Raise the tax's base rate. The current base tax rate per pound of chemical is $1.67 in 1992 and will rise to $2.65 in 1993 and $3.10 in 1995. (The total tax per chemical equals the base rate multiplied by the chemical's ozone depletion potential (ODP).) We propose raising the base rate to $2.00 in 1992, $4.00 in 1994 and $5.00 in 1995. This approach would make it more expensive for industry to delay eliminating CFC use. 2. Add HCFCs to the list of taxed chemicals. HCFCs are ozone -destroying chemicals...
Page 60 - ... the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) for a Framework Convention on Climate Change.