Industry challenge to amendments to New York's hydrofluorocarbon regulations.

Heating Air-Conditioning Refrigeration Distributors International v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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Heating Air-Conditioning Refrigeration Distributors International v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - opposition

Filed

United States of America

New York

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Policy instruments are techniques or tools used by governing authorities to promote certain policies in order to achieve predetermined goals. Put simply, instruments are how a government tries to achieve its goals, with this taxonomy being focused on national policy instruments.

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Area of the economy in which actors engage in identical or related activities.

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A long-lived, colourless gas, chiefly emitted from fossil fuel combustion, deforestation and cement production.

Fossil gas, commonly known as natural gas, is a fossil fuel consisting chiefly of methane with smaller amounts of other hydrocarbons and trace gases, found in underground deposits.

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This sector involves the wholesale and retail selling of goods.

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Heating Air-Conditioning Refrigeration Distributors International v. New York State Department of Environmental Conservation - opposition

Target

Policy instrument

Risk

Impacted group

Fossil fuel

Greenhouse gas

Economic sector

Finance