Environmental policy of the United States from the sun. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which were used beginning in the 1930s in a number of important areas, were determined in 1974 to be responsible for much of the depletion of the ozone layer. Four years later, the EPA and FDA banned CFCs in aerosol cans. As research in the 1980s indicated that the problem was worse than before, and revealed a controversial massive hole in the ozone layer over Antarctica, three international agreements were made to reduce the ozone-damaging substances- the Vienna Convention, the 1987 Montreal Protocol, and a third agreement in 1990 in London. In the United States,
The Montreal School the texts. The Montreal School The Montreal School, as its name suggests, is a school of thought in the field of organizational communication. It was initiated by James R. Taylor and colleagues in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal. It origin can be traced back to the introduction in 1987 of a new doctoral program bringing together three major French-language universities in Montreal, the Université de Montréal, the Université du Québec à Montréal, and Concordia University. The Montreal School has had, and continues to have, a global resonance in Europe ) as well as on the American