air conditioners

California will face its highest chance of blackouts this year as a brutal heat wave continues to blanket the state with triple−digit temperatures, officials warned on Monday, September 5, 2022.

Even though her Ottawa home has AC, by August, Joan Lawrence still hadn’t turned it on even though temperatures have frequently cracked 30 C.

Temperatures at unprecedented levels have led to critical water and electricity shortages.

In what officials call a key step to combat climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency is sharply limiting domestic production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, highly potent greenhouse gases commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners.

States are confronting the future of gas in buildings — and facing a set of high-stakes questions.

An amendment to the Montreal Protocol has been signed that will lower the levels of a type of greenhouse gas that warms the planet even more quickly than carbon dioxide, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said on Monday, Nov. 20, 2017.