America’s manufacturers of vital heating, cooling and water heating equipment spent more than a decade and billions of dollars to help bring about one of the most significant environmental achievements ever — the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. This global treaty established a workable schedule for the phase down of climate-warming hydrofluorocarbon, or HFC, refrigerants and is now being implemented nationally by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Most states are following the carefully designed national (and global) phase down schedule, but neither the Kigali Amendment nor its federal implementing legislation preempt states from promulgating their own refrigerant regulations. Unfortunately, New York is proposing a significantly different, state-only approach.

New York’s proposed refrigerant regulations,........

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