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International Commission Votes to Allow Use of More Climate-Friendly Refrigerants in AC and Heat Pumps

The new guidelines could save the equivalent of billions of metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2050, but the U.S. could prove slow to adopt them.

By Phil McKenna

An air source heat pump repairman from Valiant replaces a Wilo pump inside an air source heat pump unit at a house in Folkestone, United Kingdom on Dec. 23, 2021. Credit: Andrew Aitchison/In pictures via Getty Images
Kristen Taddonio confers with the CU Boulder students working on the home they were constructing for her and her husband in Fraser, Colorado, which was the students' 2021 Solar Decathlon entry. Credit: Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado

A Colorado Home Wins the Solar Decathlon, But Still Helps Cook the Planet

By Phil McKenna

Contractors work on single-family homes under construction in the Cadence Park development of The Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine, California, on April 14, 2021. Credit: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California Proposal Embraces All-Electric Buildings But Stops Short of Gas Ban

By Dan Gearino

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