date:Sep 10, 2013
time, the company statement said.
Safeway also agreed to reduce its company-wide average leak rate from 25 percent to 18 percent or below by 2015. To do so, it will invest an estimated $4.1 million in new systems, equipment upgrades and other changes meant to reduce leakage of the harmful gas.
EPA estimates the changes could prevent the future release of more than 100,000 pounds of the ozone-depleting refrigerants. Today's settlement will also achieve important climate benefits because these o