After years of sticky summers in small city apartments, my childhood memories of air-conditioned houses started to feel more and more distant. Living in buildings with small, oddly-shaped windows or ...

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This spring, I decided enough was enough. It was time to get a grown-up air conditioner that wouldn’t wake me (and all my neighbors) up every time it hummed to life. So I did what any Brooklynite who ...

Beginning in 2025, air conditioning units will be built to be more environmentally friendly following an Environmental Protection Agency mandate aiming to reduce the production of greenhouse gases and ...

The Department of Energy set stricter energy efficiency standards that are supposed to save consumers money while cutting down on pollution. The Department of Energy set stricter energy efficiency ...

Home insurance typically helps cover damage to your AC unit due to scenarios such as storms or theft. Many, or all, of the products featured on this page are from our advertising partners who ...

Most people buy a portable air conditioner to keep their rooms cool without needing to install a window unit or central AC. But many people don’t realize that portable ACs regularly collect water—and ...