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EPA quadruples membership in GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership |
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Monday, 07 September 2009 |
 The U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA)
announced that it has quadrupled the number of participants in its GreenChill
Advanced Refrigeration Partnership, which was designed to reduce the use of
ozone-depleting refrigerants in the nation’s supermarkets. Launched in November
2007, the voluntary program now includes more than 6,500 stores in 47 states and
in 2008 partners reduced their aggregate total emissions by 8.5 percent.
“This is the beginning of a partnership that is going to help us reduce
significant amounts of ozone-depleting refrigerant and other emissions, cut
costs for supermarkets and consumers, and protect our health and the
environment,” said Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for EPA’s Office of
Air and Radiation.
To highlight the
program’s top-performing participants, GreenChill recently implemented a Store
Certification Awards Program. This component recognizes retail stores that
achieve at least a 50 percent reduction in refrigerant charge and a 75 percent
reduction in refrigerant emissions, resulting in either gold- or silver-level
certification. To date, seven stores have been awarded GreenChill gold, and
three stores have been awarded the silver.
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