Industry Intervenors Blast Companies’ ‘Self-Serving’ Claims In HFC Suit

Groups representing the refrigeration, heating and cooling sector are sharply criticizing “self-serving” claims from a pair of companies that are challenging EPA’s latest round of allowance allocations for its hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) phasedown program, including a constitutional argument that would broadly undercut the program. The companies “self-serving challenges to the [allowance allocation rule] do not withstand scrutiny,” says an April 10 brief submitted by the Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) and Alliance for Responsible Atmospheric Policy (ARAP), a broad group...