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Obama Announces Coolant Phase-Out to Help in Global-Warming Fight

2014-09-16 19:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Newsmax: President Barack Obama, whose administration is moving quickly to enhance his environmental legacy, wants a quicker phase-out of the popular coolant chemicals used in homes and offices amid concerns they are hastening global warming, the Washington Post reports. The administration is seeking voluntary commitments from chemical manufacturers and retailers as it seeks to draw down the use of R-134a chemicals, known more widely as hydroflurocarbons (HFC), which have replaced ozone-damaging coolant...

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Full Compliance of Growth Promotion Phase-out

2014-07-07 16:30:00| National Hog Farmer

P. Scott Shearer, Bockorny Group, Washington, D.C. FDA announced that all 26 drug companies have agreed to phase-out the use of medically important antimicrobials in food animals (growth promotion). read more

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WORLD: ZDHC publishes priority list of phase-out chemicals

2014-06-19 16:08:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com

The Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC) programme has published a Research List of substances which it would like to see eventually eliminated from the apparel production process.

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US ex-nuclear chief: Fukushima lesson is phase-out

2014-03-13 15:31:58| Energy - Topix.net

In this March 21, 2011 file photo released by Tokyo Electric Power Co. , smoke rises from the Unit 3 reactor of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Okuma town, Fukushima prefecture, northeastern Japan.

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