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 ...

Air conditioning systems keep us nice and cool during the warmer months. But it's also making teenagers high. What many don't realize is inhaling Freon, can be fatal. "They kind of try to find a lot ...

Teenagers looking to get high have started a potentially fatal trend — huffing gas from air conditioners. “It will kill you,” air conditioning technician Lynn Morris of Morris Mechanical told WCNC of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(CBS) SACRAMENTO, Ca. - Police in northern California say crooks have hit upon an increasingly popular way to chill out - by stealing the freon gas in air conditioners, and getting high on it. Most ...

The year 2020 will capture attention for being an election year and perhaps for the summer Olympics in Tokyo. On the homeownership side of things, however, it’s the year that an old ozone-eating ...

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 ...

WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J., May 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hudson Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: HDSN) a leading provider of innovative and sustainable refrigerant products and services to the Heating, ...

Few U.S. civilians even noticed when WPB clamped down on dichlorodifluoromethane (C C12 F2). Most people did not know that they 1) had ever had it, 2) needed it, 3) had lost it. But C C12 F2 is ...