CFC substitutes release 335,500 tons of an eternal chemical called TFA that already contaminates rain, ice, and global water.
The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.
Efforts to replace ozone-depleting CFCs have led to successive generations of refrigerants that may be contributing to the ...
An international research team led by the University of Bremen has detected chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in Earth's atmosphere for the first time in historical measurements from 1951—20 years earlier ...
A third of trifluoroacetic acid (TFA) pollution is linked to CFC replacement chemicals, study finds ...
Concentrations of a forever chemical known as TFA is increasing in rainwater, drinking water, soil and plants.
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE (WHTM) — On September 25, 1974, Professors Mario Molina and F. Sherwood Rowland published a paper in the science journal Nature which would lead to widespread bans of chemicals to ...
Inhalers containing chlorofluorocarbons, or CFCs, will be phased out by the end of the year to comply with international treaties intended to protect the the ozone layer. The U.S. Food and Drug ...