EPA Announces 2025 HFC Limits, Penalties for Noncompliance
EPA recently announced 2025 allowances for production and consumption, including importation, of hydrofluorocarbons under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act, as well as 2025 penalties for companies that didn’t comply with HFC phasedown regulations.
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The agency’s Oct. 23 notice lists company-specific production and consumption allowances for calendar year 2025, as well as application-specific allowances for HFC used in propellants in metered dose inhalers, defense sprays, structural composite preformed polyurethane foam for marine and trailer use, etching of semiconductor material or wafers and the cleaning of chemical vapor deposition chambers within the semiconductor manufacturing sector, and onboard aerospace fire suppression.
EPA also listed companies that face administrative consequences in calendar year 2025 in the form of reduced allowances, either permanently or until the company addresses its noncompliance. The notice includes separate lists for:
- entities that failed to submit auditing reports, so EPA has withheld a portion of their allowances until the missing reports are submitted and subsequently verified by EPA
- entities that imported regulated HFCs without expending the requisite number of consumption allowances at the time of import; EPA has retired or revoked consumption allowances commensurate with the quantities of regulated substances imported without allowances.