Thursday, August 1, 1996
Volume:
12
Issue:
8
330
Abstract:
On July 19, 1996, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Bruce Burrell, a Miami resident, pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the smuggling of 285 tons of ozone-deleting chlorofluoro-carbons into the U.S., violations of the Clean Air Act by importing CFC-12 without obtaining required consumption allowances for the chemicals from the EPA, and to evasions of federal excise taxes on the compound...(more)