Chilling Effect: Smugglers Sell Coolant Tied to Global Warming

New York Times: The chief executive of the century-old company from America's heartland shifted nervously on the witness stand here as he tried to explain how a trusted senior vice president had been caught on a wiretap buying half a million dollars in smuggled merchandise, much of it from China. But the contraband purchased by Marcone, a St. Louis-based company that claims to be the nation's largest authorized source for appliance parts, was not counterfeit handbags or fake medicines. It was a colorless gas that...

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