President Donald Trump revoked a costly Biden-era regulation on Thursday, axing a green energy policy that banned an alleged “hyper-pollutant” for refrigeration systems, which led to higher grocery prices across the country. Trump’s move will allow businesses to make their own decisions on “the refrigeration systems that work best for them,” according to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. The president delivered the announcement at the White House alongside Zeldin and National Council Director Kevin Hassett.  Trump ripped the Biden administration for forcing “companies to adopt specific high-cost refrigerants, massively driving up the price of transporting and storing various goods.” “Americans faced higher grocery prices and reduced access to critical medical supplies,” Trump added. The Biden administration determined that hydrofluorocarbons, which are used for refrigeration and cooling, are more harmful to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. As a result, supermarkets and other businesses were only allowed to use the cooling mechanism in limited quantities, forcing them to turn to more expensive cooling methods and thus passing on higher costs to consumers.  “Americans were right to be frustrated with the Biden-era refrigerant rules. They didn’t protect human health or the environment and instead piled on costly, unattainable restrictions beyond what the law requires,” said Zeldin. “Today, the Trump EPA is fulfilling President Trump’s promise to lower costs and is fixing every problem we can under the authority Congress gave us. Our actions 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.”  A White House official told The Daily Wire the rollback on the alleged “hyper-pollutant,” paired with a revision to the 2024 Emissions Reduction and Reclamation rule, “are estimated to save American families and businesses more than 2.4 billion” dollars a year. The White House official added that the savings are “expected to flow directly to consumers through lower grocery prices, cheaper transportation of refrigerated goods, and more affordable home air conditioning.” The Biden administration claimed the restrictive regulation would lead to green technological innovation, stating, “Facilitating the transition to next-generation technologies through sector-based restrictions on HFCs is one way that EPA and stakeholders are working together to meet ambitious climate protection goals.”  The rule mandated a 40% reduction in hydrofluorocarbon use, with an 85% reduction scheduled by 2036, leading to higher costs for grocery stores that were left with no choice but to overhaul their refrigeration systems. Trump’s move to roll back Biden’s green regulation is his latest strategy to address Americans’ economic concerns amid rising energy and food prices in recent months. In April’s inflation report, grocery prices rose 2.9% year-over-year, the highest rate since 2023.  Earlier this week, the administration temporarily paused the Jones Act, which would increase the supply of ships able to transport cargo between American ports. The Administration has also urged the Department of the Interior to explore additional energy production on Federal lands and waters, remove all regulatory requirements related to energy that are not grounded in applicable law, eliminate the electric vehicle mandate, and reverse Biden’s liquified natural gas export ban.