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Maybe acid rain isn't the villain

Journal Article · · Fortune; (United States)
OSTI ID:6098386
The perceived harmful nature of acid rain and production mechanism for high lake and river acidity are criticised in context of proposed low US acid rain control federal expenditure. Views are based on a November, 1983 Hudson Institute study - A Perspective on Current Acid Rain Issues. High lake and river acidity is viewed as: often natural; generally due to local deficiencies in natural filtering and neutralizing media; not due to the minor acidity contributor - industrial pollution; and possibly partly due to successful, recent historical US and worldwide forest fire prevention. Acid rain forest damage is seen as a scientifically unsubstantiated and probably illusory threat.
OSTI ID:
6098386
Journal Information:
Fortune; (United States), Journal Name: Fortune; (United States) Vol. 109:11; ISSN FORTA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English