The Post & Email 7/13/2021
"THIS IS A CAP AND TRADE SYSTEM" A group of 17 leading free market advocacy organizations is telling EPA to rethink and repropose its faulty phaseout rules for HFCs. These rules were recently proposed under the so-called American Innovation and Manufacturing (AIM) Act passed in December. EPA is rushing the rule making, with final rules due out in September.
The call for reform comes in the form of formal comments submitted on EPA’s proposed phaseout regulations. The lead author of the comments is Ben Lieberman from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Our own CFACT is also a member of the group of 17.
The comments are impressively concise. Below are some important quotes that convey the thrust of these comments, with my analysis added.
The focus of the comments is on what Junk Science guru Steve Milloy calls “The war on refrigeration“. Here is an overview of the group’s concerns.
“The AIM Act imposes limits on the future production of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and does so on the grounds that they contribute to climate change. The economic impacts will be very significant and widespread, as HFCs are the class of refrigerants used in hundreds of millions of air conditioning and refrigeration systems. Keeping this equipment in operation will cost considerably more because of these provisions. In addition, new equipment designed to use alternative refrigerants with lower global warming potentials (GWP) carries a price premium and will likely continue doing so as competition with the HFC-using systems currently dominating the market is increasingly constrained.”
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https://www.thepostemail.com/2021/07/13/epa-should-rewrite-its-proposed-hfc-regulations/
