Word: cfc
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...compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting into the atmosphere. Draper raised such a fuss with the Environmental Protection Agency, the newspapers and local and state officials that GE agreed to offset the CFC discharges in its compressor- replacement program by recapturing an equal amount elsewhere in its operations. Draper has since stalked the halls of Congress urging more controls on CFCs and has become one of Maryland's environmental watchdogs, taking everything from reforestation to recycling before the general assembly...
Under this new bottom-up pressure, states and cities have led the way in setting more stringent rules for pollution control. While Washington is formally committed to only a 50% reduction in CFC production by the end of the century, governments from the state of Vermont to the city of Irvine, Calif., have moved toward a complete prohibition. And this November, in the best illustration of the power of kitchen ecologists, Californians will have a chance to vote on the most ambitious environmental package of any state in the country -- a ballot initiative that aims at nothing less than protecting...
...CFC production completely...
...market would be nationwide. Though Bush's current target is SO2, such a trading system could be set up for just about any kind of pollutant. Last year the Government decreed at least a 15% reduction in the production of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons. But Washington is letting the four CFC manufacturers decide how to allocate the pain; they can buy and sell CFC production rights. Senator Wirth thinks that global warming could be countered by international trading of permits to emit carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases...
...destroying the ozone layer, which shields the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Because of the vagaries of air currents, ozone depletion has been most severe over Antarctica. It was the discovery in 1983 of an "ozone hole" over the continent that first alerted scientists to the immediacy of the CFC threat...