13. Environmental Protection Agency · Minor
Refuse manufacturer petitions adding new HFC restrictions
Printed page 425 13. Environmental Protection Agency
“Refrain from granting petitions from opportunistic manufacturers to add new restrictions that further skew the market toward costlier refrigerants and equipment.”
What has happened
- Done
EPA has acted on AIM Act petitions in one direction only, and it is the direction the Quote wants. Its final Technology Transitions rule says it "addresses administrative petitions and input received from regulated industry" and uses them to relax restrictions across seven refrigeration and air conditioning subsectors; a companion proposal issued the same day would take road and intermodal transport refrigeration units out of the leak repair requirements. No petition adding a new hydrofluorocarbon restriction has been granted in this window.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- A refrain ask. A preserve-or-continue ask counts as done while the thing continues, and should not be held at partial because nothing dramatic happened; refraining is the same species, and the direction of EPA’s petition decisions is documented rather than merely absent.
- Negative search (2026-08-27): the EPA final and proposed rules we keep and search include five hydrofluorocarbon documents in the window, and every one of them relaxes a restriction or renews an application-specific allowance. None grants a petition adding a new restriction.
- If EPA later grants a petition tightening a subsector, this becomes reversed.
- Action
- restrict
- Object
- AIM Act petitions for new HFC restrictions
- ID
- 1080