This clip reviews the refrigerant phaseouts, including The Montreal Protocol and The Kigali Amendment. The US EPA's SNAP policy evaluates substitutes for ozone-depleting substances, and the AIM Act gave EPA authority to regulate global warming. Check out The Engineers HVAC Podcast to learn more!

In this 60 sec. clip from Podcast Episode 26, we review the policies and protocols behind refrigerant phaseouts.

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Important Milestones in the Refrigerant Phase Down:
1987 - The Montreal Protocol: a global agreement to protect the stratospheric ozone layer by phasing out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances (ODS).

2015-2016 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Significant New Alternatives Policy (SNAP), requires EPA to evaluate substitutes for ozone-depleting substances to reduce overall risk to human health and the environment. This includes refrigeration and air-conditioning.

2016 - The Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol is an international agreement to gradually reduce hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) consumption and production.

2017 - 2021 - EPA NORP (Notice Of Proposed Rule) to limit equipment manufacturing with HFCs over 700.

2020 - Congress passed an AIM (American Innovation & Manufacturing) Act in late 2020 that gave EPA authority to regulate global warming. In the past, EPA had only had the authority to regulate ozone depletion, so EPA was not doing any low GWP transitions because they didn't have the authority.

Please visit The Engineers HVAC Podcast to learn more about the R410A phase-out dates and properties of the two viable alternates.

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