On July 18, NASRC and PG&E will co-host an educational workshop to help the supermarket industry prepare for California’s refrigerant regulations.

The Department of Commerce initiated investigations to see if imported Chinese HFCs were circumventing the antidumping duty order on HFC blends.

The Food Marketing Institute’s (FMI’s) 2019 Energy & Store Development Conference will be held September 8-11 at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas.

Since the courts ruled that the EPA did not have the authority to phase down HFCs, the commercial refrigeration industry has been in a bit of turmoil.

The workshop will bring together stakeholders from the commercial refrigeration, government, and utility sectors.

The regulatory landscape for refrigerants used in chillers has become more complicated, thanks to the court decision that declared the EPA is not authorized to regulate HFC refrigerants under the Clean Air Act.

According to a summary from AHRI, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit issued a decision to vacate the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA’s) Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP) Rule 21 last month in response to a lawsuit brought by Mexichem Fluor and Arkema, with Chemours and Honeywell joining the case on the side of the EPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is experiencing a bit of an existential crisis, doubting how much agency it really has to protect the environment when it comes to regulating refrigerants.

The U.S. HVAC industry considered (and largely still considers) an HFC phasedown to be inevitable.

Some economists predict that the economy may slow a bit in 2019; however, manufacturers believe demand for HVAC equipment will remain high.