EPA Touts International Efforts To Craft Tough HFC Enforcement Plans

EPA is touting plans to work with key international trading partners, as well as industry and environmental groups, to combat illegal trafficking of climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) as the agency ramps up implementation of its new program to sharply phase down the chemicals. “Efforts to phase down HFCs in many countries have had the side effect of creating markets for illegal trade of these harmful chemicals,” EPA Administrator Michael Regan said during a Nov. 9 side event at the ongoing international...