EarthTalk® – About That Ozone Thing

From the Editors of E – The Environmental Magazine

Dear EarthTalk : Has anyone calculated the positive health and/or economic impacts of international efforts to protect the stratospheric ozone layer beginning in the late 1980s?

  — C. Marin, St. Louis, MO

1987’s Montreal Protocol, a landmark international agreement calling on the nations of the world to ban the production and distribution of man-made chemicals that deplete the stratospheric ozone layer, has been billed as one of the...