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Article: ACCA skeptics ask EPA: Why do we need to replace those CFCs, anyway?(Air Conditioning Contractors of America, chlorofluorocarbons)
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- Air Conditioning, Heating & Refrigeration News
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- April 14, 1997
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LOS ANGELES -- When the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) and other worldwide environmental authorities said that CFCs were helping to cause a hole in the ozone layer, there was still a fair share of skeptics at the ACCA meeting here.
After all, didn't the EPA raise a hue and cry about asbestos and radon, both of which have been scaled down in their capacities as health hazard? And haven't many of us heard that there really is no hole in the ozone layer, and that global warming is a hoax embraced by a bunch of tree-huggers?
These were the issues and addressed by Jeffrey Levy and David Stirpe, both from the EPA, at the 20th annual meeting of the Air ...