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- Businessmen Sentenced to 88 Months in Prison for Scheme to Evade Taxes on Sales of Ozone-Depleting Chemical
- WASHINGTON, March 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- New York businessmen Dov Shellef and William Rubenstein were sentenced today to 70 months and 18 months, respectively, for conspiring to evade approximately $1.9 million in excise taxes due on sales of an ozone-depleting chemical called trichlorotrifluoroethane (CFC- 113), the Justice Department and the...
- Research articles 2006-03-22
- Philippines to phase out ozone-depleting refrigerants next year
- MANILA AFP — Ozone-depleting refrigerants are to be banned in the Philippines from next year, in a move that would affect motorists with vehicles that are at least six years old. The phaseout would also affect manufacturers of foam mattresses, inhalers for asthma patients, and others that rely on...
- Research articles 2005-11-01
- Widening ozone hole is as big as Europe
- PARIS AFP — The seasonal ozone hole over Antarctica has widened sharply this year, making it the biggest hole since 2000 and the third largest on record, according to measurements reported by the European Space Agency ESA. Data sent back ESA's Earth-monitoring satellite Envisat showed the hole had swollen...
- Research articles 2005-08-30
- Businessmen Convicted In Scheme to Evade $1.9 Million; In Taxes onSales of Ozone-Depleting Chemical
- WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Dov Shellef and William Rubenstein were convicted of conspiring to evade approximately $1.9 million in excise taxes due on sales of an ozone-depleting chemical called trichlorotrifluoroethane (CFC-113), the Justice Department, Roslynn R. Mauskopf, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, and...
- Research articles 2005-08-04
- Economics of the "critical use" of methyl bromide under the Montreal Protocol
- I. INTRODUCTION Methyl bromide MeBr, a powerful pesticide used for fumigation of soils and of agricultural products in shipment, is one of the chemicals--like chlorofluorocarbons CFCs and halons--that is known to destroy stratospheric ozone. MeBr was first controlled under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Portugal facing EU action for lax disposal of ozone-depleting pollutant
- LISBON AFP — The European Commission has launched legal action against Portugal for failing to enforce laws regulating the disposal of old refrigerators and air conditioning units containing ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons CFCs, environmentalists said. Quercus, a leading Portuguese environmental group, said it received a letter from the EU Environment Commission...
- Research articles 2004-10-01
- Protecting the ozone layer and reducing health risks; World Bank/Montreal Protocol limits increase of skin cancer.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-17 September 2003-WORLD BANK GROUP: Protecting the ozone layer and reducing health risks; World Bank/Montreal Protocol limits increase of skin cancerC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:09162003 WASHINGTON -- Without the Montreal Protocol, levels of ozone depleting substances in the atmosphere would...
- Research articles 2003-09-17
- Refrigerant round up
- It has been a relatively quiet year for refrigeration.Chlorofluorocarbons' CFC phaseouts continue to-move at a glacial pace, thesearch for alternative refrigerants continues, and new releases have been charting a course in the post-CFC world. Sure, you know that the modern commercial air conditioner celebrated its 100th anniversary this past...
- Research articles 2002-10-01
- World Bank to finance projects in four countries to fight global warming projects worth USD35 million will protect the ozone layer.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 December 2001-WORLD BANK: World Bank to finance projects in four countries to fight global warming projects worth USD35 million will protect the ozone layer C1994-2001 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:06122001 Montreal -- In a significant move towards ending developing...
- Research articles 2001-12-07
- Converting CFCs to HFCs.(chlorofluorocarbon, hydrofluorocarbon research)(Brief Article)
- University of Glasgow (Glasgow, U.K.) research chemist John Winfield says he has developed a process using an aluminum-based catalyst to convert ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons CFCs into less-damaging hydrofluorocarbons HFCs. The process is a safer alternative to the current industry practices of CFC disposal via incineration, or...
- Research articles 2001-09-26
- Fluoropolymers may have harmful long-term effects.
- Researchers at the University of Toronto in Canada have discovered that heating products containing PTFE or other fluorinated polymers releases chemicals into the environment. Working with researchers at Environment Canada and the University of Guelph, Canada, the Toronto team found that fluorinated polymers ...
- Research articles 2001-09-01
- The Decade of Refrigerant Chaos -- and Change.(air conditioning, heating and refrigeration history in the 1990s)
- Recycling Rules, Certification, and Ozone Depletion Stirred Debate. Thanks to what happened just prior to the start of the 1990s, cooling was a hot and heavy subject debated throughout the entire world this past decade. In 1987, 24 countries signed an historic...
- Research articles 2001-04-30
- India to get $82 million for CFC phase out agreement between India and World Bank signed.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-30 June 2000-INDIAN GOVERNMENT: India to get $82 million for CFC phase out agreement between India and World Bank signed C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30062000 India would get a grant of $82 million for gradual phase out of ...
- Research articles 2000-06-30
- India to hasten phaseout of ozone depleting substances
- NEW DELHI, June 20 Kyodo India, the world's second largest CFC producer, will phase out production of ozone depleting substances through a multimillion dollar grant project implemented through the World Bank. Ozone depleting substances such as chloroflurocarbons CFCs will be phased out with the aid...
- Research articles 2000-06-26
- India accelerates phase-out of ozone depleting substances.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-21 June 2000-WORLD BANK: India accelerates phase-out of ozone depleting substances C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:20062000 NEW DELHI -- India will phase out production of ozone-depleting substances such as chloro-fluorocarbons CFCs with the help of a US$82 ...
- Research articles 2000-06-21
- Hydrofluorocarbons Build with Transition Away From CFCs.
- Demand for HFC-134a is strong, and several producers are increasing capacity. Meanwhile, HFCs continue to penetrate the markets for air conditioning/refrigeration and foam blowing. Producers of hydroflurocarbons HFCs, particularly HFC-134a, are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. After years...
- Research articles 1999-09-13
- CFCs continue to be allowed for certain uses. (Markets: Washington).(New EPA chlorofluorocarbons rules)(Government Activity)(Brief Article)
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency EPA says it will allow continued "essential use" of chlorofluorocarbons CFCs and methyl chloroform in certain medical devices, the space shuttle and Titan rockets. CFCs, which were mostly phas THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency EPA...
- Research articles 2001-11-19
- U.S. EPA: Former California resident pleads guilty in CFC case.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-12 August 1998-U.S. EPA: Former California resident pleads guilty in CFC case C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:080898 Randy Lee Christensen, currently of Seattle, Wash., pleaded guilty on July 31, in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in...
- Research articles 1998-08-12
- EC Proposes Acceleration of HCFC Phaseout.
- Northern Europeans push for tighter regulations despite industry qualms. THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION is proposing to bring forward planned restrictions on the production and use of hydrochlorofluorocarbons HCFCs, despite protests by European producers who claim that such regulations will hand over the global...
- Research articles 1998-07-13
- OZONE LAYER: BID TO TIGHTEN UP MEASURES FOR COMBATING ILLICIT CFC TRAFFICKING
- Summary: Responding to a written question from Greek MEP Alexandros Alavanos (GUE/NGL), following the seizure by Community customs authorities of large quantities of CFCs from China illegally imported into the European Union (see Europe Environment Nx 505 for further details), Internal Market Commissioner Mario Monti...
- Research articles 1998-01-13
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