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Source-normalized reference pages on commercial refrigeration regulations, refrigerant statistics, emissions and costs. All content is based on identified public primary sources. This section contains no service-request routing, commercial recommendations, advertising or affiliate content.

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Dataset · Version 1.1 · Last verified July 22, 2026

Refrigerant Leak Statistics 2026: Rates, Costs & EPA Rules

45 source-normalized records covering reported program rates, regional assembled estimates, EPA-modeled stock-to-leak ratios, historical industry estimates, IPCC default ranges, EPA conservative screening factors, federal action thresholds, AIM Act Part 84 requirements, refrigerant prices and direct CO2e conversions. Source years: 2007–2026.

Leak ratesEPA thresholdsRefrigerant costsCO2e emissions45 recordsHFC AIM ActSection 608
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This research section is published by KC Commercial Refrigeration, a commercial refrigeration service-request website serving the Kansas City metro area. It is maintained separately from the commercial side of the site to reduce the risk that research content is treated as commercially motivated.

Research pages are based on identified public primary sources: federal regulations on eCFR, EPA program publications, EPA regulatory-impact analyses, IPCC inventory methodology guidance, original-producer data reports and similar authoritative material. No research page fabricates measurements, attributes claims to unnamed experts, or uses sources it cannot locate and cite.

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