Trump’s EPA to roll back refrigerant rule for grocery stores in push it claims will lower prices

Key points

• The Trump administration is set to loosen a federal rule that requires grocery stores and air-conditioning companies to reduce greenhouse gases used in cooling equipment, in what officials say is a push to lower grocery costs.
• The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, said the Biden-era rule imposes costly restrictions that limit the type of refrigerants US businesses and families can use.
• The new rule will “allow businesses to choose the refrigeration systems that work best for them, saving them billions of dollars.
• This will be felt directly by American families in lower grocery prices,” Zeldin said in a statement released before a White House event on Thursday where Donald Trump is scheduled to announce the changes.
• Executives from Kroger, Piggly Wiggly and other grocery chains are expected to join him.