NRDC Backs EPA’s Defense Of Its Ban Of Single-Use HFC Cylinders

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is seeking to bolster EPA’s defense of its rule banning single-use containers as part of the agency’s phasedown of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), chemicals used in refrigeration and for other purposes that are potent greenhouse gases, in a bid to curb smuggling of the substances. In a June 10 amicus brief , the group argued that in addition to the ban being needed to limit smuggling, as EPA has, it is also needed to limit...