A new EPA rule relaxes the requirements on leak detection and maintenance Programs for Owners and operators of refrigeration equipment. Credit: Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto via Getty Images For the latest Trump Administration rollback of Environmental Protection Agency rules, the math goes something like this: The change will save businesses and industries $24 million a year. Earth’s atmosphere, on the other hand, will receive emissions of pollutants equivalent to at least 625,000 new cars being added to the road. This week, EPA Administrator Andrew R. Wheeler signed a new rule that relaxes the requirements that owners and operators of refrigeration equipment have leak detection and maintenance programs for hydrofluorocarbons, a set of refrigerants often referred to as “climate super-pollutants.” The rule change—the latest reversal of an Obama-era regulation—was part of the administration’s agenda to ease burdens on industry. “We just think it’s a baffling and wrong-headed move,” said David […]