Appliance Group Warns EPA Against 'Broad Reconsideration' Of HFC Limits

May 24, 2017
As EPA is gathering input on which regulations it should scrap or significantly revise, a major commercial appliance industry group is urging the agency to maintain its rules limiting hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants, requesting only targeted changes to some of the deadlines. The Air-Conditioning, Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI) in May 15 comments to EPA is defending two Obama-era rules phasing out high global warming potential (GWP) HFCs, promulgated under the agency's Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) program. They argue the...


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