ENVIRONMENT

Du Pont Will Accelerate CFC Phase-Out: The giant chemical company announced that it will hurry its own timetable for ending production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), in response to findings by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization that stratospheric ozone depletion was advancing faster than expected. Du Pont said it would up its phase-out of CFCs and Halons by three to five years--to 1994 for Halons and 1996 for CFCs. William K. Reilly, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, also warned that the new scientific data will cause the federal government “to look very hard at the possibility of advancing the phase-out dates” for CFCs.