NHL and Chemours Refrigerant Partnership Misleads on Sustainability

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By Paige BennettNov 17, 2021, 2:21 pm754 ptsTrending
Environmentalists are concerned over a multi-year partnership between the National Hockey League (NHL) and Chemours, a chemical company under DuPont de Nemours, Inc. The partnership involves switching from ammonia as the primary ice rink refrigerant to a supposedly "sustainable" synthetic refrigerant called…

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