Economics of Preserving The Ozone Layer.

Focuses on the economic impact on American businesses of a national phase-out of widely used ozone-depleting chemicals. Statistics that estimate the environmental benefits of new environmental laws and regulations imposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Discussion of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC); Comments from Douglas G. Cogan of the Investor Responsibility Research Center, regarding future regulations needed to restore the ozone layer; Benefits of CFCs in the U.S. economy; Prevalence of CFCs in commercial products; Alternatives to CFCs.