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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant
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Acid Rain Program The EPA administers the Acid Rain Program, which is designed to achieve significant environmental benefits through reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
The Acid Rain Program is working to significantly reduce electric utilties' emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, the pollutants responsible for acid deposition.
The exhaust emissions of sulfur oxides and sulfates (major components of acid rain) from biodiesel were essentially eliminated compared to sulfur oxides and sulfates from diesel.
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Miles Rhodes,
Wine Taster
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Sulfur dioxide is a primary contributor to acidic deposition (acid rain), causing acidification of lakes and streams and damaging trees, crops, historic structures, and statues.
ACID RAIN: Cloud droplets combining with gaseous pollutants, such as oxides of sulfur and nitrogen, to make falling rain or snow acidic.
Sulfur dioxide gas can react with water droplets in the atmosphere to create acid rain , which causes corrosion and harms vegetation.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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Sulfur dioxide makes acid rain and causes chronic bronchitis, asthma, and acute respiratory ailments.
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Astrid Schuhmann,
Backpacker
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Now in the twentieth century forests die from acid rain, marine life is blighted by oil spills and urban populations suffer health problems from the smog created by commuter traffic.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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Nitrogen oxides are an important precursor to both ozone and acid rain, and may affect both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.
They also seek to make companies report the risks of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide that cause acid rain, as well as mercury emissions.
The latest data available in the report confirm major reductions nationwide in two acid rain-causing emissions - sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Acid rain, ozone depletion and global warming, have caused lasting damage and these will continue to be damaging in the foreseeable future.
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