When Congress passed the AIM Act in December 2020, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was tasked with creating the rules necessary to phase down the use of HFCs in the U.S. As part of this rulemaking process, EPA has been meeting regularly with industry stakeholders, including manufacturers, trade associations, and environmental groups, to ask for their input and expertise in crafting the new regulations.
The most recent workshop addressed subsection (i) of the AIM Act, entitled “Technology Transitions,” which provides EPA with the authority to restrict the use of regulated HFCs in sectors or subsectors where they are used. This meeting focused on the refrigeration and air conditioning sectors, and industry stakeholders weighed in with what they would like to see EPA include in the final rulemaking.