Articles Tagged with ''regulations for HVACR''

The extra time will allow a workshop for interested parties to recommend changes to the proposed language. 

With all the talk in recent years, and even more so in recent months, regarding refrigerants like CO₂ and hydrocarbons (HCs) making inroads in refrigeration equipment, the trends in the ‘R’ of HVACR are even more widespread. 

Contractors who work in this market must be especially careful to keep up to date on changing requirements if they are to successfully navigate the complex system of regulatory compliance.

The change will save energy and taxpayer money while potentially drumming up more business for some HVAC contractors.

Before we continue to launch attacks at the agency as an easy target, it might be good to step back and examine why the EPA does the things it does. 

While having mercury thermostats in homes and buildings across the U.S. is not necessarily a bad thing, controlling what happens to those thermostats after they’ve been pulled off the wall is vital in keeping the powerful neurotoxin out of the environment. 

Current inventory of R-22 remains plentiful in the U.S., even as the industry heads toward a total phaseout of the popular refrigerant in 2020.

A recent state-of-the-industry panel session focused on the cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency of natural refrigerants when compared to the much more common f-gases.