Since coming to work for HARDI in September 2010, one of the issues that has been a constant is the pending phasedown of HCFC-22 or R-22 refrigerant. The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with overseeing the end of production and importation of this refrigerant by the year 2020. This date was set in the Montreal Protocol, which sounds more like an action movie than an international environmental agreement.
Not unlike a movie, the dynamics surrounding the phasedown of R-22 have contained plot twists, interesting characters and uncertainty. Unlike a movie, we always knew how this story would end, and how fast we would get to the conclusion.