LA Times Is Upset Trump Rolled Back The Absurd AC Standards

During both the Obama and Biden admins there were lots of new standards that made AC way more expensive, and made them less affordable for the middle and working class. Trump is having none of that

Older AC and fridge chemicals amp up climate change. Trump just rolled back limits on them

President Trump on Thursday announced that grocery stories and air conditioning companies will be allowed to keep using high-polluting refrigerants for longer than they would have under a law he signed during his first administration.

“This was a tremendous burden, a tremendous cost,” said Trump, surrounded in the Oval Office by executives from supermarket chains including Kroger, Fairway, Neimann Foods and Piggly Wiggly. “It was making the equipment unaffordable, and the actual benefit was nothing.”

The move loosens rules meant to restrict hydroflourocarbons, a class of climate-damaging chemicals used in cooling equipment. HFCs are known as “super pollutants” because their impact on climate change can be tens of thousands of times greater than carbon dioxide during their shorter lifespans.

In the move Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency extends the deadline for companies to comply with a 2023 rule transitioning refrigerators and air conditioners off HFCs and onto new cooling technologies. Reducing these chemicals and moving to cleaner refrigerants has long been a bipartisan issue.

Um, what law did Trump sign that caused the rule put out by Biden’s EPA? Weird that there is no link to it and it is not named. And, I’m not going to bother looking. The LA Times made the assertion. But, if it was a law Trump signed, the unhinged Warmist EPA surely misused the law to pass this rule.

Trump is also proposing exemptions from a rule requiring leak repairs on large-scale refrigeration systems.

The administration framed the changes as part of its effort to bring down high grocery costs. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said the actions will save $2.4 billion for Americans and safeguard 350,000 jobs.

“Americans who wanted to be able to fix their equipment were instead being required to buy far more costly new equipment and that just doesn’t make any sense,” said Zeldin.

Most of the “replacements” for HFCs, which I will 100% agree are greenhouse gases and bad for the ozone, as well as decrease air quality a bit, are highly flammable and a lot more expensive, require full replacement of equipment, which is itself not cheap. And those costs get passed on to consumers. In fact, attempting to ban HFCs goes easily back to 2016, when the global elites moved to eradicate them without viable, affordable replacements.

The weird thing is how none of those elites nor regular old Warmists are giving up their own AC units.