Getting to grips with acid rain

New Straits Times;  May 31, 2007 ;   Ellen Whyte;   737 words ......Times 05-31-2007 Getting to grips with acid rain Byline: Ellen Whyte Edition: Main/Lifestyle...science curriculum regularly mentions acid rain, mostly along with pollution, the effects...If you aren't exactly sure what causes acid rain, want to conduct some experiments to...

Fuel-efficient furnace helps reduce acid rain. (coal-burning furnace which...

Canadian Chemical News;  February 1, 1991 ;     444 words ...Fuel-Efficient Furance Helps Reduce Acid Rain As a step in the fight to stop acid rain, one Canadian researcher has revived...sulphur emissions (a main component of acid rain). Henry Becker, FCIC, a chemical...in terms of energy shortages and acid rain, it will ultimately ...

Acid rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History

Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society;  July 1, 2008 ;   Weand, Matthew P;   787 words ...Acid rain in the Adirondacks: An Environmental History. Jerry...14850. US $29.95. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7424-8, paperback. Acid Rain in the Adirondacks is a scientific history of acid rain research, from the discovery of acid rain, to the expanding...

AN 'ENVIRONMENT PRESIDENT' BACKPEDALS ON ACID RAIN

The Boston Globe;  February 11, 1990 ;   Dianne Dumanoski, Globe Staff;   716 words ......veterans of the acid rain fight in the past...to put a cap on carbon dioxide emissions. The...issue into the acid rain of the '90s? Will...global burden of carbon dioxide, become the global...staff. "That's acid rain all over again...stabilization of ...

President Bush changes his position on carbon dioxide.(no longer supports...

Public Works;  April 1, 2001 ;     188 words ......supporting regulation of the carbon dioxide emissions produced by power...and sulfur, a cause of acid rain. In a letter to Sen. Hagel...that mandatory controls on carbon dioxide emissions would hurt consumers...they had not realized that carbon dioxide was not ...

Does acid rain hurt your car?

Consumers' Research Magazine;  January 1, 1996 ;   Berlau, John;   631 words ...Acid rain . . . can be just as damaging to a car...in Home Mechanix magazine. Chemicals in acid rain react with paint to form sulfuric and...cratering and etching in clear-coat finishes. Acid-rain damage can easily chop $1,000 off your...

ACID RAIN BILLS AGAIN FACE STIFF OPPOSITION

The Boston Globe;  February 19, 1987 ;   Dianne Dumanoski, Globe Staff;   616 words ...When he stuffed another acid rain bill into the Senate hopper a few...tracking the long and wearying fight for acid rain controls, the prospects for the senator...decidedly mixed. Although support for acid rain legislation has been growing in Congress...

DROP IN ACID RAIN ALTERING APPALACHIAN STREAM WATER

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 19, 2006 ;     658 words ......be getting a respite from acid rain but data from a long-term...suggests that the drop in acid rain may be changing biological...ecosystem and hiking dissolved carbon dioxide in forest streams. "These...rates to increase with reduced acid rain," DeWalle told attendees ...

Is Acid Rain a Tempest In News Media Teapot?; Study Questioning Harm Gets...

The Washington Post;  January 14, 1991 ;   Howard Kurtz;   787 words ......takes the conventional wisdom about acid rain and shoots it full of holes." According...and the media who have been portraying acid rain as one of those critical problems that...for all the debate over the effects of acid rain caused by industrial pollutants. In three...

New case for regulating CO2 emissions; A report finds progress in fighting...

The Christian Science Monitor;  April 6, 2006 ;     638 words ......that cause smog and acid rain than they were 15 years...greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide, too, says David Hawkins...most associated with acid rain. Nitrous oxides, associated...same period. However, carbon dioxide emissions - which are...emitters in the US of ...

STUDY LINKS ACID RAIN TO GREENHOUSE EFFECT

The Boston Globe;  October 1, 1989 ;   Dianne Dumanoski, Globe Staff;   752 words ...Acid rain, which is devastating...New England soils in acid rain -- alters the behavior...s atmosphere. After carbon dioxide, methane is the second...study continues. Since acid rain has been adding nitrogen...question of "whether acid rain is reducing the ...

Pollution helps weeds take over prairies. (acid rain and agricultural...

Science News;  December 7, 1996 ;   Raloff, Janet;   457 words ...Acid rain and agricultural pollution...different scheme for using carbon dioxide than the native C4 prairie...off as water pollution and carbon to reenter the air. The naturally...plant growth, the nitrogen in acid rain would help industrialized...fossil-fuel burning is emitting ...

Survey: Acid rain effects worsening

The Boston Globe;  May 16, 1993 ;   Alexander Reid, Globe Staff;   787 words ...The damage from acid rain, an environmental menace to fish and...survey, which was conducted by the Acid Rain Monitoring Project at the University...offered a worrisome glimpse of the acid rain problem in the area. The survey consisted...

Acid rain; air quality, global change, or what?

National Forum;  January 1, 1990 ;   Rycroft, Robert W.;   787 words ...Acid Rain Air Quality, Global Change, or What? What are we doing about acid rain? During the last few years, literally dozens of bills designed to address the problem of acid rain have been introduced in the United States Congress...

SEN. SCHUMER: PRESIDENT'S BUDGET CUTS CONTINUE TO EAT AWAY AT VITAL...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 6, 2007 ;     787 words ......Administration for threatening to cut a key acid rain monitoring program used across Upstate...Administration is planning to further gut anti-acid rain efforts by completely slashing funding...federal programs that work to combat acid rain across New York State and the country...