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Executive vice president’s report — summer 2018

We Keep Asking! We’ve inundated you in the past few weeks with a few surveys, and while I’m sure you’d […]


07.24.2018

USTR announces third, proposed list of $200 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports

On July 10, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) released a proposed list of Chinese imports, found in Annex A of a draft Federal Register notice, […]


07.23.2018

NAFEM awaiting feedback from DOE on Energy Conversations Standards discussion

In March, NAFEM submitted comments in response to the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) to inform its Energy Conservation Standards Program Design. […]


07.23.2018

ENERGY STAR ad-hoc project work continues

Building on the industry’s successful steam-cooker component inspection pilot program that combined ENERGY STAR energy-efficiency verification testing with quarterly product […]


07.23.2018

NAFEM joins EPA SNAP discussions

Conversation continues in Washington, D.C., around how to successfully ban the use of certain hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) commonly used in commercial […]


07.23.2018

Supreme Court nominee on the environment

In the July 10 edition of Bloomberg Environment, writer Fatima Hussein notes that in the 2017 case Mexichem Fluor v. EPA, […]


07.23.2018

CA proceeding with plans to ban HFCs

Prohibitions on the use of certain refrigerants by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) to reduce to greenhouse gas emissions […]


07.23.2018

CA considers promoting new refrigerant technologies

California Senate Bill 1013 currently before the general assembly would promote the adoption of new refrigerant technologies – including low-global-warming-potential refrigerants […]


07.23.2018

CARB releases draft Community Air Protection Blueprint

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has issued the initial draft of its statewide air protection strategy and monitoring plan. The Draft Blueprint outlines […]


07.23.2018

CA greenhouse gas inventory data now available

The 2016 greenhouse gas (GHG) emission inventory is now available on the California Air Resources Board (CARB) website. The updated inventory includes […]


07.23.2018