INDUSTRY EYES EPA VOLUNTARY PLAN TO LIMIT BID FOR NEW REFRIGERANTS

A voluntary agreement between EPA and the refrigeration industry may help industry counter environmentalists' efforts to promote alternatives to greenhouse gases used as refrigerants, by encouraging companies to minimize the refrigerants' emissions but not to look for alternatives. Environmentalists have been campaigning for several years for the air conditioning and refrigeration industry to avoid substances thought to contribute to climate change, and they have gained the support of major soft drink and fast food corporations in an initiative featured at...