Officials from the “Group of Eight” major industrialized countries completed two days of talks here with a statement saying that they hoped to ratify the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming by 2002.
A partnership between the U.S. Department of Energy and the natural gas industry was given a boost with the announcement of a manufacturing contract between ITT Industries and Goettl Air Conditioning.
The board of directors of the Air Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute (ARI) and the Commercial Refrigerator Manufacturers Association (CRMA) have agreed to integrate CRMA members into the ARI, resulting in the dissolution of CRMA.