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Tag: Refrigerant Management

  • Sustainability, ESG Reporting, & Your Refrigerant Impact

    At the recent COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, the news about our current global warming trajectory and greenhouse gas emissions was fairly dire. We’ve already warmed the planet +1.2°C over pre-industrial averages (as of the summit in 2021).

  • Steve Ehrlich’s 47 Year Journey Through HVAC and Refrigerants

    After returning from military service overseas during the Vietnam War, Steve Ehrlich had several choices to make. The year was 1974. Steve was smart, ambitious, and already an extremely experienced technician, having serviced flight instrumentation in various military aircraft. Of all his options before him, Steve certainly was not planning a career path in the…

  • How Energy Management is Leading ESG Reporting Conversations

    Before the 2010s, investors paid little attention to environmental social and governance (ESG) reporting and sustainability data. The story in the 2020s is very different. Today’s investors are hungry for data on your company’s environmental sustainability impact, labor policies, energy efficiency, board composition, and more. They want to know about your corporate sustainability initiatives and…

  • 4 Ways to Improve Your ESG Reports with Software

    Every year, hundreds of millions of pounds of refrigerant gas go unreported. The consequences of such oversight are substantial. Not only do untracked gas leaks result in extreme damage to the atmosphere and the climate, but they also lead to billions of dollars in losses, damaging your bottom line.

  • Earth Day 2020 – The Refrigerant Management Conundrum

    Buckminster Fuller was an inventor best known for creating the Geodesic Dome, he was a futurist that created things to help mankind and protect the planet, he referred to earth as “Spaceship Earth”.

  • Compliance Alert: COVID-19 and Business Continuity at Trakref

    Everything in the world has changed in only a few short months. Only a few weeks ago we were all planning our spring maintenance and getting ready to finish up the filings for GreenChill and submitting reports to EPA for Chronically leaky systems.

  • COVID-19: Business Continuity at Trakref

    Helping our customers, clients and their support staff to use technology to accomplish compliance and environmental sustainability success is our core purpose here at Trakref.

  • 5 Things HVAC/R Teams Need to Know

    2019 was the year we all started to see HVAC/R regulations for environmental sustainability come into focus, with changes at the federal and state level impacting both maintenance requirements and record keeping.  What did not change in 2019 was the employment situation, there are simply not enough new people coming into the HVAC/R trades to…

  • Integrating Refrigerant Regulations into Your Business

    As a business or building owner, it’s your job to know what regulations to adhere to. Refrigerant regulations are constantly changing, and affect your ability to stay compliant. This is especially important as we see more regulations come into place around environmental sustainability and decreasing companies’ environmental footprints.

  • January News Roundup: Top HVAC and Refrigerant Management Compliance Updates

    These updates are important for staying on top of compliance, environmental sustainability, and corporate sustainability initiatives. Keeping on top of the latest in HVAC/R and refrigerant tracking is imperative to stay in compliance and decrease your environmental footprint, so read on!