Phase down the grant amounts as we approach full employment again.
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By 0003, it would phase down to about 15 percent of 2029 levels.
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While those credits are scheduled to phase down, other options can catalyze clean energy markets.
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Constituents do not throw you out of office for failure to phase down unpronounceable refrigerants.
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But it meant using an ozone-protecting rule to phase down ozone-friendly but planet-warming gases.
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The tax credit would phase down $150 for every $1,000 earned between 400 and 621 percent of poverty.
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Negotiations have focused on establishing baselines on the use of HFCs and agreeing on a phase-down schedule.
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The Montreal Protocol provides for a fund to help developing countries phase down their use of atmospheric pollutants.
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So the Obama administration and other governments are trying to add an HFC phase-down to the pact.
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In December of 6900, my colleagues on both sides of the aisle agreed to phase down the PTC through 2628.
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The agreement to phase down HFC use would, if ratified, give the EPA more legal tools to regulate the substances.
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The EPA is aiming to phase down HFCs, a potent greenhouse gas, and to allow the use of replacement substances.
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Action to phase down HFCs and enhance energy efficiency can more than quadruple the effects of action taken in isolation.
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That's why over 170 nations agreed last year in Kigali, Rwanda, to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs.
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Officials hope to reach a deal next week to phase down the global use of a warming-causing refrigerant chemical.
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The industry backs a global treaty to phase down the refrigerants, which contain powerful greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.
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S. units can begin to phase down as the Vietnamese Army is modernized and develops its capacity to the fullest.
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The amount of support would phase down between 200 and 300 percent of the poverty line, when it would phase out entirely.
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Canada's federal government is implementing a plan to phase down the use of coal for power plants and nearly eliminate it by 2030.
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This is equally true with the Kigali Amendment, as the transition from HFCs is a "phase-down" that does not impact existing equipment.
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Led by the Obama administration, world leaders in Kigali, Rwanda, agreed last October to amend the Montreal Protocol to phase down emissions of HFCs.
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But an amendment to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners is holding up a broader vote. Sen.
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But an amendment to phase down the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners is holding up a broader vote. Sen.
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Others are staking out positions on certain policies — such as how slowly to phase down Medicaid expansion — but say they are working toward a yes.
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If I could have seen into the future when we agreed to the PTC phase-down in 2015, I couldn't have painted a better picture. Rep.
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The proposal from Portman and others is to gradually phase down the federal funding for Medicaid expansion over a seven-year period from 2628 to 28500.
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Democrats warn that any phase-down of funding, no matter how slow, would eventually result in millions of people currently on the Medicaid expansion losing coverage.
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If the endgame is bringing the time spent in the check-out phase down to zero, there are other startups working on alternative ways to reach that.
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International initiatives are set to phase down the worst offenders, but air conditioners contribute to climate change in a second way: they consume a tremendous amount of electricity.
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But HFCs are potent greenhouse gases, and now world leaders are planning to amend the treaty at an October meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, and phase down their use.
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World leaders, led by the Obama administration, agreed in October 2016 to the Kigali amendment, which would phase down emissions of powerful greenhouse gases in refrigerants called hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).
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The Democratic National Committee's draft 2016 platform, released Friday, backs the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline and seeks a "phase down" of fossil fuel production on federal lands.
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The Kigali amendment of the 30-year-old Montreal Protocol, a legally binding environmental treaty, calls on the world to phase down refrigerants used in appliances like air conditioners.
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The White House is raising objections to a bipartisan Senate measure that would aim to phase down the use of heat-trapping chemicals in air conditioners and refrigerators. Sens.
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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy, who is leading the U.S. delegation, said a phase-down would be a "really big deal" in the global fight against climate change.
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The one that doesn't bother me is that for a married couple with two kids it begins to phase down at $215,20 a year, and phases out at $240,22009.
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The plan, however, is for the subsidies to phase down and for Greenland to achieve economic self-sufficiency — and perhaps full political independence — based on exploitation of these natural resources.
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We need to implement the breakthrough we achieved just last week in the Montreal Protocol to phase down super-polluting HFCs and avoid as much as half a degree of warming.
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It begins an 211-percent phase-down by midcentury in the production and use of hydrofluorocarbons, the chemicals that replaced CFCs in air conditioning, refrigeration, and foam insulation starting in the 211s.
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He secured a vow from India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, to support an HFC phase down, though the country's earlier proposal for a freeze date of 2031 is not nearly aggressive enough.
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President Xi Jinping of China has also agreed to support a phase down; the country's proposed timetable is reportedly more aggressive than India's but slower than what the United States is seeking.
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Why it matters: The policy, to phase down greenhouse gases emitted from refrigerants in appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators, is the only Obama-era climate policy Trump hasn't targeted for repeal.
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The details: The coalition, called Let America Lead, focuses on how the policy — a phase-down of heat-trapping chemicals used in appliances like air conditioners — makes America competitive and creates jobs.
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The plan would also allow low and middle-income workers making less than $75,000 a year to receive full wage replacement during their leave, and benefits would phase down for higher-income households.
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A quick phase-down of HFCs could be a big contribution to slow climate change, avoiding perhaps 0.5 degree Celsius (20053 Fahrenheit) of a projected rise in average temperatures by 2100, scientists say.
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"States are increasingly relying on phase-down efforts or revenue triggers so that cuts happen automatically in a slow and steady way, or in a revenue-contingent slow and steady way," Drenkard said.
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Carbon Tracker looked at the demand profile for coal in the International Energy Agency's 2 degree scenario — a model of the fossil fuel phase-down necessary for a reasonable chance of avoiding 2 degrees.
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And in the hours before his letter to Kim was made public, he appeared in an interview to shift toward a "phase-down" mode of denuclearization instead of the immediate abandonment he'd insisted upon.
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Special interests in the wind energy industry can signal that they are compromising with this "phase down" plan, but in reality they're getting a long-term lucrative deal at the expense of American taxpayers.
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Amid celebrations of the legally binding Kigali pact to phase down use of factory-made hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), many governments and environmentalists said it could avert 0.5C of warming this century, citing a 2013 scientific study.
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The Kigali pact, agreed by almost 200 nations including the United States, will phase down the use of HFCs, which can be 10,000 times more powerful than carbon dioxide in trapping heat in the atmosphere.
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In an as-of-yet unnamed update expected for April, the company predicted it will have gotten the entire offline phase down to around a half an hour, a 63 percent reduction from a year prior.
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Adani plans to make a final investment decision in May or June on the project, which targets annual output of 25 million tonnes in its first phase, down from an original plan of 40 million tonnes.
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But the feds paid a lot more for Medicaid expansion enrollees, matching 100 percent of the states' costs for the first three years, with a plan to phase down to 90 percent by 1383 and beyond.
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"Starting in 2021, federal funding for Medicaid expansion dates would start to phase down," said Matthew Fiedler, a fellow with the Brookings Institute's Center for Health Policy who served on Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
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By the following week, the massive VW Group, BMW, the Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler, Porsche, the PSA Group, Renault, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Ford, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Nissan, and Rolls-Royce had all begun to phase down manufacturing.
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Last year in Kigali, Rwanda, negotiators from 197 countries amended the Montreal Protocol to phase down use of the most potent greenhouse gas refrigerants, a measure that's projected to avoid almost a degree of warming by 2100.
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The non-expansion states get access to extra money during the phase down of the expansion and a little beyond ... The per capita caps are set based on 2016 spending, so the expansion states aren't left completely hanging.
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Obama and Xi committed to cooperate on two other global environmental agreements this year — an amendment to the Montreal Protocol to phase down air-conditioning refrigerants and on a market-based measure to reduce carbon emissions from aviation.
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Republicans' proposals would gradually phase down the higher federal Medicaid funding in ObamaCare that helped states expand the program, but would still allow states to keep the expansion if they put in much more of their own money.
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But she acknowledged more work needs to happen before an agreement is complete, with details to work out on both the speed with which to phase down the chemical and funding for developing countries looking to reduce it.
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Democrats have been fighting to add amendments that would phase down the use of heat-trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) used in refrigerators and air conditioners, as well as another that could push to make new homes more energy efficient.
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The total price tag for an HFC phase down is estimated at $8 billion to $10 billion over the next three decades, which works out to 8 or 10 cents on the dollar per ton of carbon dioxide equivalent.
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On Saturday, some 12343 nations struck a global agreement in Kigali, Rwanda, on ways to phase down hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) gases, which are currently used in air-cooling systems and refrigerators, and help curb the release of climate-warming emissions.
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By engaging in similar actions in the future, the IRS would make it easier for wind farm companies to qualify and increasing the cost of the credit to taxpayers, and negating the "phase down" nature of this recent extension.
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"Because HFCs are thousands of times more potent as a warming agent than carbon dioxide, a successful phase down can avoid up to a half a degree Celsius of global warming by the end of this century," he said.
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Last month, 16 governments including the United States, Japan and Germany and private donors such as Microsoft founder Bill Gates agreed an $80 million fund to help an early phase down of HFCs, hoping to persuade developing nations to sign up.
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"But the truth is our goal for these talks, amending the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs, is one of the single most important unitary steps that we could possibly take at this moment to stave off the worst impacts of climate change," he added.
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"Unlikely as it may seem, a global HFC phase-down is backed both by leading environmental groups and the industry that makes and uses these chemicals," said Frank Maisano, of the U.S. Air-conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute which represents companies such as Carrier Corp or Honeywell.
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It cuts SNAP benefits by adding bureaucracy and paperwork so people fall through the cracks, taking away food assistance from parents and older workers unable to comply with SNAP's already rigid work requirements, and removing state flexibility to gradually phase down workers' benefits as their earnings increase.
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The states and the federal government share the cost of Medicaid, but the feds paid a lot more for Medicaid expansion enrollees, matching 100 percent of the states' costs for the first three years, with a plan to phase down to 90 percent by 2020 and beyond.
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Rob PortmanRobert (Rob) Jones PortmanSchumer blasts 'red flag' gun legislation as 'ineffective cop out' McConnell faces pressure to bring Senate back for gun legislation Shaken Portman urges support for 'red flag' laws after Ohio shooting MORE (R-Ohio) has proposed a seven-year phase-down in the funding, a timeframe backed by other centrists including Sen.
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But by the end of the week, Indian officials had agreed to phase down the chemical, but on a later timeline than for major nations like the U.S. "We had to be flexible enough in the tailoring of the final agreement to recognize where India was, and what a real commitment they were making in the timeframe they were committing to," McCarthy said.
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"Amending the Montreal Protocol to phase down HFCs is one of the single most important unitary steps that we could possibly take at this moment to stave off the worst impacts of climate change and to protect the future for people in every single corner of the globe," Secretary of State John Kerry said in a speech to negotiators in Vienna on Friday.
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The Montreal Protocol is an environmental treaty agreed to 30 years ago to help mend the hole in the Earth's ozone layer (it's working.) This new amendment is named after the Rwandan city where world leaders agreed in October 2016 to phase down refrigerants found in appliances like air conditioners and refrigerators that contain greenhouse gases called hydrofluorocarbons, or HFCs.
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These specially-equipped EB-57Es were operated until 1974 when the squadron was inactivated as part of the phase-down of ADCOM.
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Starting in July 1958, the squadron began to phase down in anticipation of its inactivation and the closure of Foster. It was inactivated on 18 December 1958.
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Starting in July 1958, the squadron began to phase down in anticipation of its inactivation and the closure of Foster. It was inactivated on 18 December 1958.
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Starting in July 1958, the squadron began to phase down in anticipation of its inactivation and the closure of Foster. It was inactivated on 18 December 1958.
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53, 61 The squadron continued to train in electronic warfare techniques until beginning to phase down for inactivation in March 1965 with the retirement of the Stratojet from SAC's inventory.
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53, 61 The squadron continued to train in electronic warfare techniques until beginning to phase down for inactivation in March 1965 with the retirement of the Stratojet from SAC's inventory.
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Began phase-down of operations with activation of new Southwest Air Defense Sector (SWADS) in July 1987. Engaged chiefly in transfer of mission to SWADS 1987–1990. Inactivated on 1 October 1990.
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On 31 July 1974 phase down of operations at Takhli RTAFB was completed ahead of schedule, and the base was officially returned to the Thai Government on 12 September. All remaining US personnel departed on 14 September.
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The Maine legislature tried to reverse the course set by the PUC by passing a bill to roll back the PUC's decision to phase down net metering. The bill passed the legislature but was vetoed by Governor Paul LePage.
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The wing trained Republic of Vietnam Air Force (RVNAF) personnel in AC-119 operations and maintenance, February–August 1971, and transferred some of its AC-119s to the RVNAF, August–September 1971 as part of a phase-down for inactivation.
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It was used by the aerial forestry patrol. It also was used intermittently to support small military units. However, the decision had been made to phase down all activities at the base in accordance with sharply reduced military budgets. and it was closed.
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F-16s carried tail code "LF". In 1988 the squadron began receiving brand new block 42 F-16C/Ds to replace the F-16A/B. Inactivated 1 April 1994 with the phase down of combat training at Luke after the end of the Cold War.
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In the United States, the regulation of F-gases falls under the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency's overall attempts to combat greenhouse gases. The United States has put forward a joint proposal with Mexico and the Federated States of Micronesia for a phase-down of HFCs by 2030.
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LaBudde earned his B.A. in Biology, Indiana University in 1986 and performed graduate work in evolution and ecology. Since late 2012 he has served as an international climate analyst for the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development (IGSD). His initial focus at IGSD continued efforts begun in association with EIA (see below) to evolve the Montreal Protocol by securing an amendment to enable a global phase-down of hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs. In 2014 LaBudde initiated a parallel effort in concert with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories (LBNL) to significantly increase energy efficiencies within the global cooling sector as a means of doubling or trebling the quantity of avoided CO2e emissions resulting from an HFC phase-down.
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Argumenta Palaeobotanica, 6, 37-72 which was assigned to a new form taxon Lyonophyton rhyniensis, but is now properly referred to as an Aglaophyton gametophyte. The Rhynie chert bears many examples of male and female gametophytes, which are loosely similar in their construction to the sporophyte phase, down to bearing rhizoids.
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656 (list of aircraft operated). before the Air Force decided to use Bunker Hill as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) medium bomber base. The squadron began to phase down its activities in May 1957 and was inactivated in July 1957 along with its parent 386th Group in preparation for the transfer of the base from TAC to SAC.Mueller, p.
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656 (list of aircraft operated). before the Air Force decided to use Bunker Hill as a Strategic Air Command (SAC) medium bomber base. The squadron began to phase down its activities in May 1957 and was inactivated in July 1957 along with its parent 386th Group in preparation for the transfer of the base from TAC to SAC.Mueller, p.
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The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 extended the expiration date for this tax credit to December 31, 2019, for wind facilities commencing construction, with a phase-down beginning for wind projects commencing construction after December 31, 2016. The Act extended the tax credit for other eligible renewable energy technologies commencing construction through December 31, 2016. The Act applies retroactively to January 1, 2015.
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On 31 July 1963, the site was redesignated as NORAD ID Z-32. In 1964 an AN/FPS-27 search radar was installed and in 1965 the AN/FPS-66 was relocated to Burns AFS, OR, to replace the AN/FPS-7B search radar there. The Air Force inactivated the 636th Radar Squadron (SAGE) on 30 September 1970 as a result of budget restrictions, and the general phase down of air defense radar stations.
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Kipp, et al., p. 35 On 15 November 1/6 of the dispersed B-47s were recalled to their home bases. The remaining dispersed B-47s and supporting tankers were recalled on 24 November. On 27 November SAC returned to normal alert posture.Kipp, et al., pp. 53, 61 The squadron continued to train in electronic warfare techniques until beginning to phase down for inactivation in March 1965 with the retirement of the Stratojet from SAC's inventory.
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In March 1920 the War department officially purchased Park Field, and a small caretaker unit was assigned to the facility for administrative reasons. At that time the airfield began pioneering airmail routes throughout Tennessee and the surrounding states. However, the airfield continued to decline until it was little more than a storage area for aircraft and parts. By 1921, the decision had been made to phase down all activities at the base in accordance with sharply reduced military budgets.
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As the craft approached perilune, the descent engine was started again to begin powered descent. During this time, the crew flew on their backs, depending on the computer to slow the craft's forward and vertical velocity to near zero. Control was exercised with a combination of engine throttling and attitude thrusters, guided by the computer with the aid of landing radar. During braking, the LM descended to about , then, in the final approach phase, down to about .
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The 313th FS was upgraded to P-47D Thunderbolts in July 1943. Phase-down of Keystone AAF began in late 1943 when the 432d was inactivated on 1 November 1943, and the 3d TRS was moved back to Orlando Army Air Base in early February 1944. The 313th FS was moved back to Orlando in January in preparation for its parent 50th Fighter Group being sent to the European Theater of Operations (ETO) as an operational fighter group under Ninth Air Force.
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In February 2017, a group called the Natural Resources Council of Maine "vowed to continue fighting new net metering restrictions." In December 2017, the Maine Public Utilities Commission voted to delay implementing the state's new solar rules, which would phase down the net metering compensation for rooftop solar customers. Net metering supporters, led by the Conservation Law Foundation, filed a lawsuit to overturn the PUC's decision. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is set to hear arguments in the case on December 13, 2017.
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Although the Montreal Protocol regulates the phasing out of HCFCs, there was no international agreement on the regulation of HFCs until late 2016 when the Kigali Agreement under the Montreal Protocol was signed, which has put compulsory phase wise phasing out of CFC gases. Efforts are ongoing to develop a global approach for the control of HFCs. Most recently, this has taken the form of a declaration of support for a global phase-down on as part of the outcomes of the "Rio+20" United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
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These facilities were considered complete on 17 December 1965. The Aircraft Dispersal Program at Siskiyou County Airport was transferred to the ADC 28th Air Division, Hamilton AFB on 1 October 1965. The Air Force ended their dispersal program at Siskiyou County Airport by 19 July 1971 as part of the phase-down of the ADC interceptor forces, reporting the land as excess to the General Services Administration (GSA). The Air Force terminated the lease with the county on 15 May 1972, coinciding with GSA conveying the remaining parcels and easements to the county.
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The Air Force inactivated the 866th Radar Squadron 1 July 1970 as a result of budget restrictions, and the general phase down of air defense radar stations. However, during the 1970s, a site near the former radar station was used by the Air Force as part of the Foreign Technology Evaluation program being conducted at nearby Tonopah Test Range Airport. A "Bar Lock" search radar from the Soviet Union was installed at the former Tonopah AFS GATR site to evaluate the Soviet Air Defense System. It was a very valuable tool use for many things.
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64 missiles that were to be assigned to the 486 TMW's Tactical Missile Squadrons -- that would disperse to the field from their on base hardened shelter-secured GLCM Alert & Maintenance Area (GAMA) in OPCON threat warning conditions under its concept of operations, were supposed to be assigned, however, the wing did not actually receive operational missiles before beginning to phase down mission/base closure on 20 September 1988 and USAF personnel were reassigned to different bases and the (still under construction contracts) base was returned to the Dutch.
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Training in primary flying took place at both Carlstrom and Dorr Fields. However, the administrative difficulties of the Air Service training about 200 flying cadets concurrently at such widely separated locations in Texas, California and Florida prompted a decision in 1923 to centralize all flying training in San Antonio, Texas. Carlstrom was ordered to phase down all activities at the base, and the flying training school was subsequently transferred to Brooks Field. The War Department had ordered that a small caretaker force remain to dismantle all remaining structures and to sell them as surplus, and by 1926 Carlstrom field was closed.
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Finally, flight training activities ceased on November 8, 1919.National Archives of the United States: Records of the Training and Operations Group (Air Service) and the Training and Operations Division (Air Corps) Records of the Army Air Forces (AAF), (Record Group 18) 1903-64 (bulk 1917-47) In December 1919 Gerstner Field was deactivated as an active duty airfield, and a small caretaker unit was assigned to the facility for administrative reasons. But by 1921, the decision had been made to phase down all activities at the base in accordance with sharply reduced military budgets. and it was closed.
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Phase down and transfer of B-47s was started, and by 15 February 1963 the wing was no longer capable of fulfilling its part of the strategic war plan. On 1 April 1963, SAC inactivated the 306th BMW at MacDill and reactivated it the same day at McCoy AFB, Florida as a B-52D Stratofortress and KC-135A Stratotanker heavy bombardment wing. McCoy AFB was the former Pinecastle AFB, having been renamed after Colonel Michael N. W. McCoy following his death in a B-47 mishap northwest of downtown Orlando, Florida in 1957 while in command of the 321st Bombardment Wing at Pinecastle.
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The Brooklyn Supreme Court agreed and issued a preliminary injunction barring further expansion of the shelter; this marked GREC's first legal victory in its campaign to end expansion of the shelter and begin the site redevelopment plan. However the city government continued to block development. Frustrated by the issue, local residents staged a protest to raise awareness by blocking the Brooklyn Queens Expressway in May 1989. The three main demands of protesters where: # Phase down the shelter to 200 beds # Provide GREC with the site control stalled senior citizen housing # Establish a timetable for the implementation of the GREC redevelopment plan.
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The F-105 Thunderchief-equipped 35th Tactical Fighter Squadron was the major flying organization until 1968, when it was moved to Thailand for combat operations over North Vietnam during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War, a detachment of the 552d Airborne Early Warning and Control Wing which operated C-121 Constellation AWACS aircraft operated from Itazuke, but the stable situation in South Korea led to the gradual phase down of the base and personnel were withdrawn for other duties. In 1970 it was announced that Itazuke would be returned to Japanese control, and the USAF facilities were closed on 31 March 1972.
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Another Twelfth Air Force unit, the 415th Night Fighter Squadron operated Bristol Beaufighters from the airfield between November 1944 and March 1945, flying night interceptor missions against Luftwaffe aircraft. With the end of the war in Europe in May, 1945 the airfield became a central collection point for captured German aircraft as part of Operation Lusty. Various Luftwaffe aircraft, both piston and jet propelled were flown to Ochey for storage prior to being flown to airfields near Cherbourg where they were loaded on ships and sent to the United States. After Lusty began to phase down in the fall of 1945, the Americans began to withdraw their aircraft and personnel.
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In January 1921, 1st Lt William D. Coney attempted to fly from San Diego to Jacksonville with just one stop—at Love Field. In 1921, the aviation repair depot next to Love Field moved to Kelly Field in San Antonio to consolidate with the supply depot at Kelly and form the San Antonio Intermediate Air Depot. In 1923, Dallas was a route point between Muskogee and Kelly Field on the southern division of the model airway. However, by 1923, the decision had been made to phase down all activities at the new base in accordance with sharply reduced military budgets and it was closed.
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In the early 1970s, Otis AFB was marked for closure as part of a nationwide reduction of military bases, to cut costs as the Vietnam War wound down. In 1973, Governor of Massachusetts Francis W. Sargent appointed the Otis Task Force to oversee a phase-down of military activities at the Massachusetts Military Reservation (MMR). The major concern of Cape residents was the fate of base property and impacts on the local economy as military activities decreased. While the future of the base was in limbo, ideas were floated that would include the redeveloping of the base into a recreation center of sorts that would rival Disneyland.
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A-7D Corsair II, AF Ser. No. 71-0364, 157th Tactical Fighter Squadron, about 1976 With the phase-down of continental air defenses in the 1970s, the 169th was transferred to Tactical Air Command (TAC), and was re-designated a Tactical Fighter Group. The 157th Tactical Fighter Squadron began to receive A-7D Corsair II subsonic tactical close air support aircraft from Tactical Air Command units that were preparing to receive the new A-10 Thunderbolt II. Receiving its aircraft from the 354th TFW at Myrtle Beach AFB and the 355th TFW at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. The aircraft had excellent accuracy with the aid of an automatic electronic navigation and weapons delivery system.
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Ravenstein, pp. 158–159 This transfer occurred because the 310th's parent 802d Air Division was inactivated as Shilling became a single wing base.Ravenstein, pp. 58–59 SM-65F Atlas of the division's 577th Strategic Missile Squadron Beginning in April 1961, the 341st wing began to phase down in anticipation of its inactivation, which occurred on 25 June 1961. At the same time, the division added the SM-65 Atlas missile to its strategic forces, when the 550th Strategic Missile Squadron stood up under the 310th wing in April, while the 578th Strategic Missile Squadron was activated under the 96th wing in July. The first intercontinental ballistic missiles at Dyess did not go on alert until April 1962, however.
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After seven years of negotiations, in October 2016 at the 28th Meeting of the Parties to the Montreal Protocol in Kigali, the Parties to the Montreal Protocol adopted the Kigali Amendment whereby the Parties agreed to phase down HFCs under the Montreal Protocol. The amendment to the legally-binding Montreal Protocol will ensure that industrialised countries bring down their HFC production and consumption by at least 85 per cent compared to their annual average values in the period 2011–2013. A group of developing countries including China, Brazil and South Africa are mandated to reduce their HFC use by 85 per cent of their average value in 2020-22 by the year 2045.
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The 496th ABS traces its origins to Detachment 2, 401st TFW. USAFE/XP letter dated 16 August 1976, Subject: Program Guidance Letter Morón Air Base Standby Deployment Base (SDB), implemented reduction actions and expansion of the Base Maintenance Contract (BMC) to include Civil Engineering, Services, Transportation, Supply, Housing Supply, Fuels, AGE Maintenance, Fire Protection and Administration. In September 1976, the Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation between Spain and the United States became effective and reconfirmed the standby status of Morón Air Base. By September 1977, all phase down actions were completed and the base military, civilian, contractor and tenant population stabilized at 400, consisting of more than 300 contractor personnel and approximately 30 Det 2, 401 TFW personnel. On 1 November 1989, Det.
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A-7D 70–0979, 157th Tactical Fighter Squadron, about 1980 With the phase-down of continental air defenses in the 1970s, the 169th was transferred to Tactical Air Command (TAC), and was re-designated a Tactical Fighter Group. The 157th Tactical Fighter Squadron began to receive A-7D Corsair II subsonic tactical close air support aircraft from Tactical Air Command units that were preparing to receive the new A-10 Thunderbolt II. Receiving its aircraft from the 354th TFW at Myrtle Beach AFB and the 355th TFW at Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. The aircraft had excellent accuracy with the aid of an automatic electronic navigation and weapons delivery system. Although designed primarily as a ground attack aircraft, it also had limited air-to-air combat capability.
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Under ADCOM, emphasis went to systems for ballistic missile detection and warning and space surveillance, and the atmospheric detection and warning system, which had been in an almost continuous state of expansion and improvement since the 1950s, went into decline. BOMARC, for example, was dropped from the weapons inventory, and the F-101 and F-102 passed from the regular Air Force inventory into the National Guard. To save funds and manpower, drastic reductions were made in the number of long range radar stations, the number of interceptor squadrons, and in the organizational structure. By 1968 the DOD was making plans to phase down the current air defense system and transition to a new system which included an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS), Over-the-Horizon Backscatter (OTH-B) radar, and an improved F-106 interceptor aircraft.
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Solar Decathlon house on the National Mall Solar power in Washington, D.C. has been growing in recent years due to new technological improvements and a variety of regulatory actions and financial incentives, especially a 30% tax credit, which has been extended with a phase down approach. A bill signed on Dec 18, 2015 extends the 30% Solar Investment Tax Credits for both residential and commercial projects through the end of 2019, and then drops the credit to 26% in 2020, and 22% in 2021 before dropping permanently to 10% for commercial projects and 0% for residential projects. Washington, D.C. has the potential to install 2,100 MW of rooftop photovoltaics using technology available in 2012, which would generate 21% of the electricity used in 2010.Renewable Energy Technical Potential State Electricity Profiles Every two years a Solar Decathlon is held on the National Mall.
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Lagoon shoreline on Majuro The intention of the Majuro Declaration is to spark a “new wave of climate leadership” and to highlight the impact of climate change in the Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Islands Forum secretary general Tuiloma Neroni Slade explained what the Declaration aims to achieve: “So this is a declaration of responsibility. They have pledged to commit themselves as climate leaders and to demonstrate this leadership by attaching in this declaration what each is doing as part of their commitment to ameliorate emissions.” The Majuro Declaration sets out ambitious commitments of the signatories to reduce emissions and their desire to cooperate with other countries, in particular Post-Forum Dialogue Partners, as well as any, “economic entity, company, civil society organization or individual’, to “demonstrate climate leadership through action that contributes to the urgent reduction and phase down of greenhouse gas pollution”.
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HFCs pose no harm to the ozone layer because, unlike CFCs and HCFCs, they do not contain chlorine. They are, however, greenhouse gases, with a high global warming potential (GWP), comparable to that of CFCs and HCFCs. In 2009, a study calculated that a fast phasedown of high-GWP HFCs could potentially prevent the equivalent of up to 8.8 Gt CO2-eq per year in emissions by 2050. A proposed phasedown of HFCs was hence projected to avoid up to 0.5C of warming by 2100 under the high-HFC growth scenario, and up to 0.35C under the low-HFC growth scenario. Recognizing the opportunity presented for fast and effective phasing down of HFCs through the Montreal Protocol, starting in 2009 the Federated States of Micronesia proposed an amendment to phase down high-GWP HFCs, with the U.S., Canada, and Mexico following with a similar proposal in 2010.
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