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John Lanier, chief operating officer for NATE, talks about how he’s settling into the position, what experience and skills he brings to the organization, and what he hopes to accomplish at NATE. 

At the second Atmosphere America Natural Refrigerants conference, attendees got a report on the most recent — at the time — U.S. government proposal for a worldwide agreement on what to do with HFCs.

Gordon McKinney, vice president and COO at ICOR Intl. Inc., writes about the dangers of mixing alternative refrigerants with R-22.
 

How often do you think about your website? If your answer is not daily or at least weekly, then I sure hope you are paying somebody to do it for you. 

In this podcast, Kara Saul Rinaldi introduces the National Home Performance Council (NHPC) and discusses a recently released white paper focused on properly developing the home-performance industry.

I frequently write about energy efficiency, and I’m sure you educate your customers on how to save energy in their homes and buildings, but do we actually practice what we preach?

In this podcast, Jon Melchi, HARDI's director of government affairs, updates us on regional standards, discusses HARDI’s recent visit to Washington, D.C., and touches on a few other issues affecting distributors.

In baseball, it doesn’t matter how well the team performs in the first eight innings if the pitching staff fails to close the game in the ninth. As a Detroit Tigers fan, I’m all too familiar with this philosophy. 

HARDI president Brian Cobble responds to a column by The NEWS' editor-in-chief Kyle Gargaro regarding the ongoing regional furnace standards lawsuit.

As I gain more and more time and experience in everything HVAC, the large scope of the industry is something that hasn’t ceased to amaze me yet.