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Trader Joes: Looks adorable, passes gas like a climate villain
2016-06-27 12:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
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...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical