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Welcome to the first stage of the HFC phasedown as mandated by the AIM Act. As of January 1, 2022, the production of HFC refrigerants has been reduced by 10%.

The Biden administration’s coronavirus vaccine mandate for employers with 100 or more workers is on again — for now.

Courts have so far halted the OSHA mandate, the Medicate mandate, and the executive order. But does that mean the mandates are gone for good?

Minimum efficiency standards for new residential central air conditioning and air-source heat pumps will bump up as of 2023.

Preliminary injunctions have sidelined both the OSHA emergency temporary standard and the Executive Order.

For companies doing work for the federal government, the Biden Administration’s vaccine requirements are stricter.

The Build Back Better Act inspired significant haggling in Washington before finally receiving passage in the House of Representatives.

Thanks to a stay issued by a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge in New Orleans, the first volley of what is likely to be a multistep judicial battle puts the OSHA emergency temporary standard in limbo roughly 48 hours after the agency had released it.