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A federal grand jury in Miami has indicted two men for illegally importing 126 tons of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) for sale in the U.S. The case is the largest seizure yet of illegally imported ozone-depleting chemicals, says the U.S. Attorney's Office in Miami. The accused men face up to 20 years in jail and fines of more than $2 million if convicted. A black market in CFCs has developed as supplies of the soon-to-be-banned chemicals decrease and their prices increase. The federal government set up an interagency task force last year to try to curtail the illegal activity (C&EN, Oct. 31, 1994, page 4). We've been very concerned for quite a while, says Stephen R. Seidel, director of the Environmental Protection Agency's Stratospheric Protection Division. This is the first major case, so we are extremely pleased. We anticipate there will be more. Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances That Deplete the Ozone Layer, industrialized nations ...
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