Article: EPA estimates major long-term ozone risks. (Environmental Protection Agency)

Article: Air Cleaners: Even Most Effective Could Be Questionable ...
AScribe Health News Service;  September 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Consumers Union YONKERS, N.Y., Sept. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- Even the best air cleaner can be a frivolous investment, according to medical experts. There's little evidence that they alone will reduce the effect of indoor pollutants for those with asthma or allergies. In its October report,

Article: Removing CFCs from old appliances. ...
Popular Science;  April 1, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... appliance's efficiency. In the past, CFCs were vented directly into the air during ... Act dictates that as of July 1992, all CFCs in household appliances must be recovered ... management department.) Eventually, CFCs will be phased out of use under the Montreal ...

Article: Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
The Gale Encyclopedia of Science;      700+ words ...Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are artificially made chemical compounds used as refrigerants ... xAE; , a trade name, is often used to refer to them. CFCs do not spontaneously occur in nature. They were developed ...

Article: License Management Implemented to CFCS Production.
China Chemical Reporter;  July 6, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Implementation of Quota License Management to CFCs Production". It is decided to implement quota license management to CFCs production from Jan. 1, 1999. The main provisions are as follows: (1) All CFCs production enterprises have to hold quota ...

Article: The Costly Race To Replace CFCs; Ozone-Depleting Chemicals ...
The Washington Post;  September 29, 1991 ;     700+ words ... ... electronics manufacturing, chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) helped usher in the age of microelectronics ... international agreement to phase out production of CFCs and other ozone-depleting chemicals by ... as 3,500 specific applications where CFCs are involved to some degree, either in ...

Article: Wanna buy any hot CFCs? (smuggling of chlorofluorocarbons)
Process Engineering;  June 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... US has the largest problem with illegal CFCs, mostly because of the American love ... option to keep topping up the systems with CFCs. And as the US government has instituted ... to almost three times the price of the CFCs themselves), there's clearly a strong ...

Article: What price air-conditioning? (economic aspects of replacing ...
Real Estate Weekly;  May 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... and each of the major manufacturers of CFCs officially stopped producing these ozone ... agreed to phase-out the most widely used CFCs, those known as R-11 and R-12, long ... of refrigerants to building management, CFCs are still in wide use, and continue to ...