Importers, Manufacturers Tussle Over EPA’s Baseline For HFC Phasedown

Companies that import hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) are renewing their calls for EPA to alter its approach to the key issue of the baseline in the agency’s process for allocating credits to various companies under its program to sharply phase down production and imports of the climate-warming chemicals often used in refrigeration. The baseline is a calculation of how much HFCs a company produced or used in a range of years, which drives the amount of credits it will receive under the...