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EPA Rollbacks Could Raise AC, Refrigeration Costs Despite Promise of Lower Prices

A new Trump administration rule will likely cost consumers more money while creating higher emissions of climate-warming superpollutants, industry and environmental groups warn.

By Phil McKenna

President Donald Trump is joined by grocery store owners and supermarket corporation executives as he announces regulatory rollbacks on chemical refrigerants at the White House on May 21. Credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
A pipe provides natural gas to an apartment building in Queens, New York City. Credit: Lindsey Nicholson/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Windows Open, Heating On: A New York City Winter 

By Lauren Dalban

University of Maryland graduate research assistants work on an elastocaloric cooling system prototype at the the school’s Center for Environmental Energy Engineering. Credit: Courtesy of CEEE

University of Maryland Researchers Are Playing a Major Role in the Future of Climate-Friendly Air Conditioning

By Hannah Marszalek

Sustainable Heating and Cooling: Digging The Foundations

By L.D. Gussin

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