Acid rain has been greatly reduced but tons of toxis still drift down each year. MARCH 4, 2013— -- Acid rain commanded as much attention in the 1990s as global warming or the hole in the ozone ...

The United States could see the return of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the White House's rollback of pollution protections, according to an ...

Thirty-five years ago, the waters of Lake Colden in New York's Adirondack Mountains were found to be too acidic to support fish, making the picturesque, high-altitude body of water one of the ...

Is acid rain coming down over Ohio farmlands? Social media posts claim this is an effect of the response to the Feb. 3 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio. A woman in a Feb. 19 Facebook video ...

Norfolk Southern Railroad released and burned five tanker cars of vinyl chloride in East Palestine, Ohio, to prevent explosion after a freight train derailed in the village Feb. 3. Vinyl chloride, a ...

Democrats and Republicans once worked together to solve an environmental crisis. That sentence, admittedly, reads a bit like the start of a fairy tale. Long gone are the days when Republicans seemed ...

Adding scrubbers in coal-fired power plants helped reduce acid rain, but they continued to fuel climate change. Drums600 via Wikimedia, CC BY-SA Climate change can seem like an insurmountable ...

MOLINE, Ill. — We all remember seeing and smelling the thick, heavy, wildfire smoke during the month of June. Smoke so thick that the Quad Cities saw air quality levels plummet and even visibility was ...

With the pesticide DDT, lead paint, and the power plant emissions that were causing acid rain, growing public outcry eventually led to policy changes, despite pushback from industry. Climate change ...

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