The allegations resulted from an EPA inspection of the facility in July 2008 and a subsequent request for information October 2008.
Auto and Scrap agreed, among other things, to recover, or verify recovery, of refrigerant from small appliances and to stop accepting small appliances with cut or dismantled refrigerant lines. The order became effective August 3, 2009.
Chlorofluorocarbon refrigerants and certain substitute refrigerants deplete the stratospheric, or good ozone layer, allowing dangerous amounts of cancer-causing ultraviolet rays from the sun to strike the earth. Production of some of these chemicals was stopped in 1995, and federal law strictly controls their use and handling.
