New report urges 'Dirty Dozen' to replace HFCs

WASHINGTON, D.C. - America’s largest supermarkets and retailers, including Walmart and Whole Foods, are failing to take meaningful steps to replace climate-damaging Hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), according to a new report released today by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). HFCs are super greenhouse gases with global warming potential hundreds or thousands of times more powerful than carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and the most common refrigerants used in supermarket refrigeration systems.

The report, The Dirty Dozen: How your local supermarket is killing the climate finds that Ahold USA, Costco, Delhaize, HEB, Kroger, Meijer, Publix, Safeway, Supervalu, Target, Walmart and Whole Foods have not taken substantial action to begin phasing out HFCs or reduce the amount of HFC emissions leaking from refrigeration systems.