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...Helsinki accord calls on industrialized countries to create a U.N. fund that would help the developing world adapt to life without CFCs, which are used, among other things, as refrigerator coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam. Just how this would be done was not specified. Still, Norway's Environment Minister Sissel Ronbeck announced that her country would contribute 0.1% of its gross national product, or about $88 million, if others would do the same...
...long been able to claim the moral high ground in the campaign to stamp out chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
...move galvanized the U.S. into action. President George Bush quickly called for a phaseout of all CFC production in the U.S. by the year 2000, if adequate substitutes can be found. Senator Al Gore, a Tennessee Democrat, introduced a bill in Congress requiring the U.S. to phase out all CFCs in five years...
...between ten miles and 30 miles up absorbs the sun's ultraviolet radiation, which has been linked to cataracts, skin cancers and weakened immune systems in humans and other animals, as well as to damage to plants. Data-gathering flights in the Antarctic in 1987 made the connection between CFCs and ozone destruction all but certain. After a similar expedition through Arctic skies last month, scientists said conditions are ripe for a similar hole to develop over the northern regions this spring...
...plastic garbage around, the most notorious is polystyrene foam. Besides helping clog landfills, some kinds of foam contain chlorofluorocarbons, which seep into the atmosphere and deplete the ozone layer. But this month two companies that have already removed CFCs from their production process -- Mobil Chemical, a subsidiary of the oil company, and Genpak, a food-packaging manufacturer -- will open the first plant in the U.S. to recycle polystyrene foam...