The Senate voted to ratify the Kigali Amendment.
Air conditioner units sit in windows of an apartment building on July 20th, 2022, in Washington, DC. to ratify the landmark Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which commits the US to quickly phase down the use of a certain class of refrigerants that also happens to be a super greenhouse gas.
considered “super” potent greenhouse gases that are hundreds to thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide when it comes to heating the planet.To ratify the treaty amendment, the US needed at least two-thirds of the Senate to vote in its favor. That finally happened yesterday afternoon, with a
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