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Title: `Scientific uncertainty` scuttles new acid rain standard

Abstract

An EPA report to Congress due this month will report on the controversial question of whether the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) adequately protect sensitive areas of the United States from acid rain, and recommends against establishing a new `acid deposition standard` to protect sensitive areas of the United States from acid rain. Rebecca Renner reports on the scientific issues underlying that decision and the efforts of one state to overturn it. The report to Congress, required by the CAAA, asked the Agency to report on the feasibility of setting an acid deposition standard to protect sensitive areas. EPA missed the original 1993 deadline and is under court order to issue the final report by October 15. The draft report identifies the lakes and streams of the Appalachian mountains as sensitive resources that receive damaging concentrations of acidic deposition. Three areas where sensitive water resources have been well studied were selected as providing the best available data for modeling case studies: the Adirondacks; the mid-Appalachian region, including parts of Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia; and the Southern Blue Ridge in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. Results are discussed. 6 refs.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
121609
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Environmental Science and Technology
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 29; Journal Issue: 10; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1995
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 99 MATHEMATICS, COMPUTERS, INFORMATION SCIENCE, MANAGEMENT, LAW, MISCELLANEOUS; ACID RAIN; STANDARDS; NITROGEN; SATURATION; DATA COVARIANCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; US EPA; CLEAN AIR ACTS; NITROGEN OXIDES; AIR POLLUTION

Citation Formats

Renner, R. `Scientific uncertainty` scuttles new acid rain standard. United States: N. p., 1995. Web. doi:10.1021/es00010a750.
Renner, R. `Scientific uncertainty` scuttles new acid rain standard. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/es00010a750
Renner, R. 1995. "`Scientific uncertainty` scuttles new acid rain standard". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/es00010a750.
@article{osti_121609,
title = {`Scientific uncertainty` scuttles new acid rain standard},
author = {Renner, R},
abstractNote = {An EPA report to Congress due this month will report on the controversial question of whether the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 (CAAA) adequately protect sensitive areas of the United States from acid rain, and recommends against establishing a new `acid deposition standard` to protect sensitive areas of the United States from acid rain. Rebecca Renner reports on the scientific issues underlying that decision and the efforts of one state to overturn it. The report to Congress, required by the CAAA, asked the Agency to report on the feasibility of setting an acid deposition standard to protect sensitive areas. EPA missed the original 1993 deadline and is under court order to issue the final report by October 15. The draft report identifies the lakes and streams of the Appalachian mountains as sensitive resources that receive damaging concentrations of acidic deposition. Three areas where sensitive water resources have been well studied were selected as providing the best available data for modeling case studies: the Adirondacks; the mid-Appalachian region, including parts of Pennsylvania. West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia; and the Southern Blue Ridge in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Georgia. Results are discussed. 6 refs.},
doi = {10.1021/es00010a750},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/121609}, journal = {Environmental Science and Technology},
number = 10,
volume = 29,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995},
month = {Sun Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 1995}
}