In Legal Test, HFC Maker Charges EPA Under-Allocated Credits In Phasedown

A refrigerant manufacturer is charging EPA did not allocate it enough hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) “allowances” under the agency’s phasedown program for the climate-warming chemicals, and instead wrongly issued credits to two other companies, in litigation offering the first challenge to the agency’s allocation process. In a May 2 opening brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, Choice Refrigerants, formally known as RMS of Georgia, charges that EPA allocated it 1.2 million fewer allowances in 2022 than it...