Industry groups detail challenge to HFC refrigerant rules

An industry coalition says it will challenge what it calls EPA's unlawful expansion of Clean Air Act refrigerant handling rules to cover “substitute” chemicals with lower global warming potential (GWP), in a suit testing EPA's ability to impose leak-prevention measures on hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) climate-warming refrigerants. In its Feb. 17 statement of issues in the consolidated case National Environmental Development Association's Clean Air Project (NEDA/CAP) v. EPA , now pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...