The Biden administration unveiled yet another environmental regulation targeting home appliances, this time cracking down on chemicals used in air conditioners and refrigerators.
The Biden administration issued regulations impacting air conditioners and refrigerators in an effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions, but experts warn the rules will drive consumer prices higher.
White House National Climate Advisor Ali Zaidi added that the 'ambitious new action from EPA' would combat 'climate-damaging HFCs' and create jobs. However, energy experts warned that the EPA's regulations targeting HFCs will ultimately drive prices higher for new products and repairs while harming consumers.
This is likely to raise the costs — it may raise it substantially — of your next new air conditioning system,' Ben Lieberman, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, told Fox News Digital in an interview. 'One of the issues is that the new refrigerants, the new eco-friendly refrigerants, are classified as flammable. So, there are all kinds of precautions that have to be taken when you have an air conditioning system with flammable refrigerants.
We're dealing with a situation now where American consumers are being hit by inflation on goods such as food, fuel, products, appliances and then we're going to add on top of that a regulatory restriction that increases costs for all Americans related to something that is really important for people — especially in hot climates in southern states or in the southwest — which is air conditioning,' Brett Schaefer, a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, previously told Fox...
Pound for pound, HFCs are one of the most potent sources of climate pollution, and this is a significant step forward in reducing the products that use them,' Alex Hillbrand, a technical director on the industry team at the Natural Resources Defense Council, a far-left environmental group, said in a statement following the EPA announcement last week.
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