Down at the port here, down on the docks that were once the most notorious battleground in the nation’s war on drugs, some smugglers have gone the way of the rest of 1990s America: They have become ...

American companies will soon be prohibited from making or importing the chemicals that are the lifeblood of most car air conditioners, refrigerators and the cooling systems of many large buildings.

A federal ban on Freon and related refrigerants scheduled to kick in the year after next may make motorists hot under the collar once they learn it could cost hundreds of dollars to make their ...

The government revised downward its 2010 forecast for emissions of three chlorofluorocarbon substitutes that cause global warming to a 0.2 percent increase from 1995 levels, sources said Saturday. The ...

The concentrations of some ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in the atmosphere are increasing rapidly, scientists warn, despite the production of these chemicals having been banned globally ...