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Title: Fraud in the acid rain debate

Abstract

Electric utility executives, according to the author, and millions of other Americans are the victims of a gigantic fraud being carried on in the name of controlling acid rain. This fraud, states the author, involves the distorted, dire image of acidity in nature being created by environmental groups, politicians and others - to gain public sympathy for their legislative goals. The alleged fraud involves the very nature of the legislation being promoted as a low-cost cure for acid rain. On the basis of scientific evidence to date there is no assurance it will reduce acidity by any appreciable amount, but on the other hand it most certainly will cost users of electricity hundreds of billions of dollars in new costs. What has already happened to the nuclear industry is also meant for coal.

Authors:
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6507479
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Coal Min. Process.; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 21:6
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
01 COAL, LIGNITE, AND PEAT; 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; ACID RAIN; LEGISLATION; COAL INDUSTRY; POLLUTION LAWS; POLLUTION ABATEMENT; FRAUD; COST; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; EMISSION; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; PH VALUE; SULFUR DIOXIDE; ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS; CHALCOGENIDES; CRIME; INDUSTRY; LAWS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; RAIN; SULFUR COMPOUNDS; SULFUR OXIDES; 010900* - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Environmental Aspects; 017000 - Coal, Lignite, & Peat- Legislation & Regulations; 500600 - Environment, Atmospheric- Regulations- (-1989)

Citation Formats

Bagge, C. Fraud in the acid rain debate. United States: N. p., 1984. Web.
Bagge, C. Fraud in the acid rain debate. United States.
Bagge, C. 1984. "Fraud in the acid rain debate". United States.
@article{osti_6507479,
title = {Fraud in the acid rain debate},
author = {Bagge, C},
abstractNote = {Electric utility executives, according to the author, and millions of other Americans are the victims of a gigantic fraud being carried on in the name of controlling acid rain. This fraud, states the author, involves the distorted, dire image of acidity in nature being created by environmental groups, politicians and others - to gain public sympathy for their legislative goals. The alleged fraud involves the very nature of the legislation being promoted as a low-cost cure for acid rain. On the basis of scientific evidence to date there is no assurance it will reduce acidity by any appreciable amount, but on the other hand it most certainly will cost users of electricity hundreds of billions of dollars in new costs. What has already happened to the nuclear industry is also meant for coal.},
doi = {},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6507479}, journal = {Coal Min. Process.; (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 21:6,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984},
month = {Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1984}
}