Federal tax credits designed to encourage energy-efficiency measures by homeowners and home builders expired at the end of 2021 but are expected to be revived later this year — and made retroactive.
In testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, AHRI President and CEO Stephen Yurek extolled the benefits of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and urged its “expeditious” ratification.
While proponents claim that electrification is necessary to reduce global warming, critics say that it limits choices for consumers and that some electric technologies may not be as efficient or reliable as their fossil fuel counterparts.
The U.S. EPA has issued its “Clean Air in Buildings Challenge,” guidelines intended to help building owners and managers improve the quality of the air inside the buildings they operate.
There is no question that the current environmental trend right now is electrification, which is part of an overall strategy to decarbonize our society. As with most everything in life, perhaps moderation would be a better way to approach electrification.
The HFC phasedown and impending transition to lower-GWP refrigerants were top-of-mind at the recent AHR Expo. With the AIM Act, there is no stopping the transition to A2L refrigerants.
The Interagency Task Force on Illegal HFC Trade announced that over the past 10 weeks, it has prevented illegal HFC shipments equivalent to approximately 530,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions.
It appears that in the case of most employees, agreement with the concept of unions in principle does not translate into a willingness to vote a union into their workplaces.