Refrigerants, chemicals that are used to reduce temperatures, have high global warming potential. When these leak out into the atmosphere, it massively impacts the climate. The hydrofluorocarbon ...

Regulators in Canada and the United States are out of sync in banning the R-410A refrigerant that’s currently a mainstay of variable refrigerant flow (VRF) heat pump systems. Canadian lenders may be ...

Much of the refrigeration and airconditioning equipment in Australia uses fluorocarbon refrigerants to facilitate the heat transfer process. Fluorocarbon refrigerants are synthetic chemicals which ...

The final rule effectively ended the production of most comfort cooling systems that use the high-GWP refrigerant R-410A. Since HVAC manufacturers have already transitioned their comfort cooling ...