Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time -- and it requires a collective effort from all of us to reduce our carbon footprint. While there are many sources of greenhouse gas emissions, from transportation to agriculture to energy production, one often-overlooked...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) held a refrigerant technical transition meeting in December 2022 to discuss the latest updates to their regulatory responsibility resulting from the 2020 AIM Act. During the call, the EPA referenced industry trends related to refrigerants and their environmental impact; this...
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While states often tackle different elements of industrial process refrigeration and commercial refrigeration through state refrigerant management programs, such as in California and now Washington, the EPA has their own overarching federal regulations. These are outlined in Section 608, and are updated periodically to address leaking...
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Are you a property owner or tenant who is considering purchasing HVAC equipment to modernize your commercial building and work toward corporate sustainability? If so, you should be aware of the Section 179 deduction for HVAC equipment purchases and energy efficiency improvements for increasing environmental...
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We published both of these refrigerant charge resources a few years ago but revised them a little bit, so we wanted to draw more direct attention to them. Understanding refrigerant charge A refrigerant charge calculator We also might be getting back into YouTube more in the...
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I’ve found that many in the HVAC/R field are calculating refrigerant charges wrong, particularly when it comes to field-assembled equipment. So, in this post, which is Part 2 of our 3 Common HVAC Mistakes series, I’d like to explain how to calculate your refrigerant charge properly...
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The National Association for Environmental, Health & Safety, and Sustainability (NAEM) has a solid track record of putting on great conferences. NAEM has a dozen great events per year, and the upcoming NAEM conference of note is Tech23, which is in Tucson in mid-March and...
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Where we're generally at with ESG regulation The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the primary federal oversight body for what we think of conventionally as "climate" or "ESG regulation." However, it's relatively easy to argue that the EPA hasn't been tremendously successful in this space over...
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What are Non-Financial Disclosures? Today’s investors and end users are environmentally conscious, socially minded, and want to do business with companies that are aligned with their sensibilities. That’s where non-financial disclosures come in. The European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) is a set of rules that address...
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SF6 is the greenhouse gas sulfur hexafluoride; it is 25,000 times more damaging to the environment than carbon dioxide (CO2). For a long time, smaller companies did not have an obligation to report on SF6 based on estimated leak rates if the nameplate capacity was...
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