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Soon after the ozone hole over Antarctica was confirmed in 1985, many of the world's governments reached an unusually rapid consensus that action had to be taken. In 1987 they crafted the landmark Montreal Protocol, which called for a 50% reduction in CFC production by 1999. Three years later, as signs of ozone loss mounted, international delegates met again in London and agreed to a total phaseout of CFCs by the year 2000. That much time was considered necessary to give CFC manufacturers a chance to develop substitute chemicals that do not wipe out ozone...
...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...
...Soviet Union and East European countries. In the meantime, plastic-foam manufacturers in the U.S. say they will stop using CFCs in their products, and Vermont has decreed that the chemicals must be eliminated from auto air-conditioners in new cars sold in the state after 1993. Major CFC suppliers like Du Pont are developing substitutes that are much less harmful to the ozone...
...CFC production completely...