EPA Battles Multi-Pronged Industry Pushback To HFC Control Program

EPA is battling multi-pronged industry pushback to its efforts to implement a program to sharply curb climate-warming hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) pursuant to a bipartisan law enacted in 2020, highlighting challenges officials face in writing regulatory details even after the overall policy earned relatively broad backing in Congress. Some manufacturers are seeking to scrap major elements of EPA’s HFC phasedown program by pushing novel constitutional arguments in court, while other industry groups are attacking more discrete elements of the agency’s separate rules...