Grist: Trader Joes is the go-to supplier of bagged almonds and $2 wine to an entire generation of city dwellers. But did you know that Trader Joes is also a stone-cold villain of the greenhouse gas variety?
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that Trader Joes slacked off so much on refrigerator maintenance that it released a very large quantity of the greenhouse gas R-22 (better known as Freon) into the atmosphere. R-22 is a doozy of a greenhouse gas, with 1,800 times the...