As of 1 January 2020, the chemical HCFC-22, which a principal component of the trade-named refrigerant “Freon,” will no longer be produced in or imported by the United States. What's False Freon-based ...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — Refrigerant company Hudson Technologies Inc. and The Chemours Co. have agreed to a licensing deal that will allow Hudson to sell reclaimed refrigerants under the names Freon ...

Your air conditioner is not suddenly obsolete in 2026, but the rules around what goes inside it are changing fast. Whether ...

Q: My air conditioning contractor just charged me $100 per pound for R-22 refrigerant. This is a lot more than I paid four years ago. Is this a fair price these days? A: Prices for R-22 refrigerant, ...

One of the prices we pay for discovering new, daily life-enhancing technologies, is occasionally inventing something that turns out to be less than ideal from an environmental perspective. That was ...

I had no idea where we were headed, only the slightest of what we were after. I was driving. We were late. I was speeding through downtown Memphis in a borrowed minivan with no more than a vague idea ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- When the temperature goes up in Florida, air conditioners start working overtime. And Freon, a chemical used to make air cold, is a hot commodity right now because it's getting ...

The refrigerant rules changing around 2025 are often framed as a simple bump in new system prices, but the real story runs through your future repair bills, how long you can keep an older unit alive, ...

Hudson Technologies and Chemours have agreed to a licensing deal that allows Hudson to sell four types of reclaimed refrigerants under the brand name “Freon.” Per the agreement, Hudson will now be ...

Watchdog Dave Lieber took this photo of the conversion of his home's air conditioning unit from the old refrigerant to the new, more environmentally friendly one. The manufacturing of Freon comes to a ...

“I'm being told that home air conditioning freon will no longer be sold after the current supply runs out in the USA. This will force homeowners to install all new furnaces and condensers. Is this ...