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According to its latest performance summary, Airbus has received a total of 414 aircraft orders. The European manufacturer signed purchase agreements for 401 jets in July 2022 and won another 13 orders in September.

Meanwhile, US-based Boeing published significantly lower figures. The manufacturer managed to win a total of 256 aircraft orders – 130 were placed in July, 30 in August and 96 in September 2022.

The state-owned organization developing the Alaska LNG export project on the Kenai Peninsula has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Corp., Toyo Engineering Corp. and Hilcorp Alaska to study creating zero-carbon ammonia and carbon capture and sequestration projects.

Alaska Gasline Development Corp. (AGDC) said the Japanese firms and Houston-based Hilcorp, the largest natural gas producer in Alaska, inked a memorandum of understanding to study the feasibility of using North Slope delivered to the proposed liquefied natural gas terminal for ammonia production.

The Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Program will help expand smart city growth in selected cities to support safer, more efficient, resilient and equitable communities

Honeywell and Accelerator for America announced the launch of the Honeywell Smart City Accelerator Program to help cities strategically plan their futures and build capacity to fund transformational initiatives. Honeywell is engaging with five U.S. cities to provide in-kind support to accelerate progress on their smart city strategic planning. The cities are Cleveland, Louisville, Ky., Kansas City, Mo., San Diego, and Waterloo, Iowa.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The Chemours Company, a global chemistry company with leading market positions in Titanium Technologies, Thermal & Specialized Solutions, and Advanced Performance Materials, announced a planned $200 million investment to increase capacity and advance technology for its industry-leading Nafion™ ion exchange materials to support the Hydrogen Economy. Accelerated climate ambitions and energy challenges have fast-tracked demand for hydrogen power and fuel cell technology. Chemours’ investment will support growing market demand for clean hydrogen generation using water electrolyzers, energy storage in flow batteries, and hydrogen conversion to power fuel cell vehicles of the future.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to further cut emissions of climate super-pollutants widely used in air conditioning and refrigeration, the latest step in the United States' effort to phase down the potent greenhouse gases.

The federal agency’s new proposed rule would set guidelines to lower the number of available allowances for the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons — chemicals that can be thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide in warming the planet — to 40 percent below historical levels starting in 2024.

"Chemical Nightmare – Ending emissions of fluorochemical greenhouse gases" was released as the 34th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol (MoP34) opened in Montreal, Canada.

“The alarm bells of mounting scientific evidence are impossible to ignore – the production of man-made fluorochemicals is leading to vast uncontrolled emissions of dangerous gases, which are damaging the planet’s ozone layer and exacerbating the climate emergency,” said EIA US Climate Campaign Lead, Avipsa Mahapatra.

The Montreal Protocol’s own Scientific Assessment of Ozone Depletion draws attention to unexplained emissions of multiple CFCs, carbon tetrachloride and HFC-23, attributing emissions to feedstocks, by-products or unknown sources.

WASHINGTON -- The Partnership for Public Service announced it had awarded the Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medal in Science, Environment, and Technology to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s Cindy Newberg. Newberg, Director of the Stratospheric Protection Division in the Office of Atmospheric Programs, received the honor for her work to help curb the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), incredibly potent greenhouse gases that are major contributors to climate change.

A fire of any sort is a big hazard when flying because there is a chance of it spreading to the point where it becomes uncontrollable. Because of this, airplanes have fire detection and extinguishing systems in the areas of the aircraft where a fire is likely to occur.

The engines and the APU (Auxiliary Power Unit) are components where a lot of heat is produced - some of the most complicated fire detection and extinguishing systems in the aircraft are placed near these components.

If you’ve bought a flight lately, or filled your car with petrol, you’ve been offered a product to ‘offset’ the climate impact of your purchase. But this marketing is problematic for climate action, and the companies behind it are exposed to increasing legal risk.

Carbon offsetting is a concept many companies use to say that they have counterbalanced their emissions or to claim that their products are ‘carbon neutral’. It normally involves making a small payment towards climate solutions projects – most commonly planting or protecting trees – in return for a notional ‘carbon credit.’

Non-conductive and non-corrosive clean agents are fire extinguishing materials that do not leave residue after evaporation. They are essential for many fire suppression systems, especially in industrial facilities that deal with high-value and/or highly sensitive materials. The Novec 1230 fire suppression system is a component of a fast, environmentally clean fire suppression system and is safe to use in populated areas. In-panel fire extinguishing systems Compared to the FM 200, which is often preferred for home use, the Novec 1230 has a discharge time of less than 30 seconds and is discharged through a network of pipes similar to the FM200. It is stored as a liquid under pressure with nitrogen as the propellant.