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- BUSINESS, Page 43Business NotesENVIRONMENTOzone Deadline
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- Faced with the most alarming report yet on the state of the
- earth's ozone layer, President Bush declared last week that the
- U.S. will halt production of ozone-destroying chemicals by the
- end of 1995. That's four years sooner than an international
- treaty dictates, but not as fast as environmentalists would
- like. "It's a modest improvement but by no means aggressive,"
- says Liz Cook of Friends of the Earth in Washington.
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- The change won't faze major manufacturers of
- chlorofluorocarbons, the main chemical culprits in the
- ozone-destruction scenario. Such firms have already developed
- ozone-friendlier substances, and can take the new deadline in
- stride. The real burden, both technical and financial, will fall
- on makers of CFC-reliant appliances like refrigerators and
- air-conditioning systems. They will be under pressure to quickly
- modify their products to accommodate the substitute chemicals
- -- a process destined to make such appliances more costly to
- consumers.
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