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Glossary of Greenhouse Gas Terms

Green Building Law Update

volume mixing ratio), together with a number of trace gases, such as argon (0.93% volume mixing ratio), helium, radiatively active greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (0.035% volume mixing ratio), and ozone. Fluorinated gases are sometimes used as substitutes for stratospheric ozone-depleting substances (e.g., Greenhouse Gas (GHG).

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Next-gen sprayfoam systems: shifting to HFO blowing agents

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The push toward HFO-based spray foam blowing agent technology is the latest step in an ongoing evolution to phase out the use of chemicals known to harm the ozone and climate. Above a certain temperature, or in contact with another specific chemical, it will initiate a chemical reaction that generates a gas.

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Essential Reasons Why Everyone Should Be Certified in Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design

Construction Marketing

LEED’s materials and resources category reduces the impact of buildings by limiting the use of materials with high embodied energy, ozone-depleting substances, or highly toxic substances. Materials and Resources. Buildings have a reduced impact on water use and stormwater runoff. Implement Sustainable Strategies.

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Why are green buildings important?

Lets Build

From CFCs and acid rain to the hole in the ozone layer, it’s often the eleventh hour before mankind takes the necessary evasive action. Creating a building that generates most (or ideally all) of its own energy reduces ongoing demand for external power, and could even see the building’s owners selling power back to energy firms.

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Off-highway primary power through the tiers

CK Power

Now diesel generators run so clean they don’t produce much more than a puff of steam when you drop a heavy load. Updating an entire fleet of diesel generators can be a long, complicated and expensive process. . Will the next line of generators’ new dimensions impact our application?” . Units weren’t allowed to emit more than 9.2

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All Solar Panels are Pervious in Maryland

Green Building Law Update

While Maryland straddles the Chesapeake Bay, North America’s largest estuary, and as such regulation of water quality is among the strictest in the nation, the state has balanced environmental impacts of power generation and determined that onsite renewable energy is worthy of advantaging.

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OxyChem To Invest $145M In Louisiana Expansion

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The project includes equipment for producing a new raw material to be used in making next-generation, climate-friendly refrigerants. OxyChem intends to utilize its leading-edge technology to produce world-scale quantities of next-generation raw materials to meet the growing demand for climate-friendly refrigerants.”. Source: OxyChem).