The DOE will enforce new energy conservation standards that affect HVAC professionals working with commercial air conditioners, heat pumps and warm-air furnaces.

In an effort to make civil monetary penalties more effective, last year Congress passed the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015. As part of this act, penalties under the Occupation Safety and Health Act (OSH Act), those enforced by OSHA, have been increased beginning Aug. 1, 2016.