The United States has spent about $100 billion eliminating ozone-destroying chemicals from air conditioners and refrigerators, by some estimates.

Now, NASA is spending $12 billion to measure how quickly replacement refrigerants could get elevated into the stratosphere and whether they could have an impact on the ozone layer.

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