The Manufacture and Sale of CFCs Was Very Profitable for the DuPont

Essay

The manufacture and sale of CFCs was very profitable for the DuPont chemical company, and they and other industry scientists actively resisted their ban, using both political and scientific means. Considering that most of their products do not cause a global catastrophe and products must be sold in order to generate profit, it is in their interests to take an "innocent until proven guilty" approach to regulation of their products. What approach to environmental policy was used for the Montréal Protocol? Why is it required that scientists acknowledge any competing interests when they submit a manuscript for publication in a peer-reviewed journal?