In April, U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield, R-Kentucky, chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce, sent a nine-page letter to Gina McCarthy, administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), mapping out a number of significant concerns he had with the EPA’s rulemaking, “Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Change of Listing Status for Certain Substitutes Under the Significant New Alternatives Policy Program,” which allows the agency to restrict the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and delist their uses in certain applications.
“There are significant concerns about the consequences of the proposed rule, and I write specifically to request additional information related to this rulemaking,” wrote Whitfield in the letter.