Energy & environment · 22/12/2004

EPA Allocates Allowances for 2005 Import and Production of Ozone-Depleting Substances

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing the allocation of 1,524.58 metric tons of chlorofluorocarbons for use in metered dose inhalers in calendar year 2005, as an exemption to the regulatory ban on production and import of class I stratospheric ozone depleting substances (ODSs), which took effect on January 1, 1996.