Ms. Drusilla Hufford to Retire

The Director of Stratospheric Protection Division in the Office of Air Programs at the US EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation will be retiring at the end of January 2017. Ms. Drusilla Hufford has served for many years as the Director.

Ms. Sarah Dunham, a career employee and current Director of the Office of Air and Radiation, will temporarily take on the role of acting Assistant Administrator of the Office of Air and Radiation once the current political appointees depart by the inauguration of President-elect Trump on January 20 and before their replacements are named.

For additional information on the roles at the Office of Air and Radiation please visit => https://www.epa.gov/aboutepa/about-office-air-and-radiation-oar#oap

Obama admin leaving HFC deal to Trump White House

Big news in the EPA

Officials say President Obama will pass climate diplomacy to the Trump Administration – supporters fear that Trump would deem it a “bad deal”.

If the deal enters into force, companies will have to abide by the agreement reached by delegations from the 197-member Montreal Protocol whether or not the United States ratifies it. AHRI has reached out to Trump’s transition team, encouraging the president-elect to submit the deal to the Senate for ratification. The industry group has also been talking to Republicans on Capitol Hill.

In related news, President-Elect Donald Trump nominated Scott Pruitt, the attorney general of the oil and gas intensive state of Oklahoma to head up the Environmental Protection Agency.

Read more here => http://bit.ly/scott-pruitt-epa
and here => http://bit.ly/scott-pruitt-epa2

ECCC Proposes HFC Regulations

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Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) November 26th 2016, published its proposed HFC regulations in the Canadian Gazette.

Click here to review published document

This action is the latest step building on the Department’s December 2014 publication of its notice of intent to advance these regulations and follows its publication in March 2016 of the prior iteration of these proposed regulations.

Based on an initial review, differences between the latest iteration of proposed regulations and the March 2016 iteration include:

Specification of control measures for condensing units: Their control was implied in the controls on refrigeration systems in the previous version, now there is a separate reference to their control.
Removal of separate reference to blends containing HFCs in control measures: GWP limits for blends were noted in the previous version, now there is only a reference to HFCs
Restriction of applicability of aerosol control measures: Referred to as “pressurized containers” in the current proposal, only those containing 2 kg or less are now subject to controls rather than 10 kg or less in the previous version. Exemption for certain technical and medical uses remain in the current proposal.

Please CLICK HERE to review the document that includes important updates on activities related to controls on hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and outcomes of the Twenty-eighth Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol that took place in Kigali, Rwanda from October 10-14, 2016 for your consideration when submitting comments on the proposed Regulations.

Industrial Refrigeration Systems Market Worth 23.22 Billion USD by 2022

PUNE, India, October 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ —

According to the market research report “Industrial Refrigeration Systems Market by Equipment (Compressors, Condensers, Evaporators), Refrigerant Type (Ammonia, CO2, HFCS), Application (Fruits & Vegetables Processing, Beverages, Refrigerated Warehouses), & Geography – Global Forecast to 2022”, published by MarketsandMarkets, the market is expected to reach USD 23.22 Billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 5.24% between 2016 and 2022.

North America held the largest market share in 2015

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