This rain would include acids but also likely many other pollutants harmful to humans and the environment. It may be worse than the term ‘acid rain’ conveys.
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Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those lakes today shows the success of the Clean Air Act.
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.
Pollution solutions start with public pressure, often in the face of industry pushback and slow-moving political responses.
Your willingness to get a vaccination is tied to your political party. And that may have deadly consequences.
Sudbury was once known as one of the world’s most polluted cities. But it transformed itself with the help of the mining industry.
Earnings management is one of those genteel business terms that looks a lot less innocent the more you study it.
As fewer chicks survive, the eerie call of the loon could become more elusive in Ontario.
George H.W. Bush, who pledged to be ‘the environmental president,’ took a market-based approach to pollution control that helped clear the air. Now some experts think it could work on climate change.
The merchant navy – some 20,000 ships – carries the vast majority of trade goods around the world. Unfortunately, they also spew toxic pollutants that harm people and the environment.
A century before the modern environmental era, experts realized that London’s dirty air was corroding its new Parliament building. This insight led to some of the first air pollution laws.
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Professor, Climate Change Cluster, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Political Science, Fordham University
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Provost Professor of Economics and Spatial Sciences, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Institute for Humane Studies
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Professor of Earth and Environmental Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York
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