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Article: CLUE TO ACID RAIN'S PATH SEEN IN HAZE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 10, 1987
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While smoke that hovered over New England this week should
be gone by today, it left behind an enlivened debate over what
causes acid rains that threaten the region's lakes and forests.
Meteorologists say acid emissions blow into New England from
the Southeast the same way that smoke blew in last weekend from
forest fires raging in Kentucky and West Virginia. And
environmentalists insist the only way to eliminate acid rain is to
impose tough pollution controls on coal plants in Kentucky and
neighboring states, which the Reagan administration has resisted.
"The average guy could go out and see the moon was orange and
the sky was smoky and it all was coming from the Southeast," said ...