The State - News from April 23, 1989
Corporate watchdog Ralph Nader said in San Jose that the growing destruction of Earth’s protective ozone layer is tantamount to “silent violence” by high-tech companies that continue to release ozone-attacking chemicals. Nader, speaking on the eve of the international “Earth Day ‘89,” cited a report by Citizens for a Better Environment describing IBM’s San Jose facility, which released 1.4 million pounds of a chlorofluorocarbon into the atmosphere in 1987, as the world’s worst offender.
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