Justice Dept: Trader Joe’s agrees to cut greenhouse gas emissions in big court settlement
In what is now the third settlement federal authorities have reached, with a national supermarket chain (Safeway and Costco were the first two), Trader Joe’s- the uber cool, California-based supermarket chain- agreed in court to spend around $2 million to reduce refrigerator coolant leaks and also agreed to pay a $500,000 civil penalty under a consent decree with the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency. Prosecutors alleged that Trader Joe’s violated the Clean Air Act by failing to repair leaks of R-22, a hydrofluorocarbon and coolant. This was only discovered after the EPA found that Trader Joe’s was buying more refrigerant than...
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