So much for ODP: here comes GWP

The global warming potential (GWP) of hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants may be the next target of federal regulation on the industry, according to Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute VP for Policy and government affairs Joseph McGuire. He told attendees of the Food Marketing Institute's Energy and Technical Services Conference that greater efforts should be made to contain refrigerants lest new restrictions be imposed on the manufacture of HFCs. He said that he believed that the Environmental Protection Agency would primarily examine the commercial food refrigeration and automobile air conditioning industries.
NEW ORLEANS -- So much attention has been paid ozone depletion in recent years, that the equally sensitive and controversial issue of global warming seems to have been given short [...]