The Effects of Acid Rain

What is acid precipitation? What are the effects of it? Where is this acid coming from? What can we do to stop it? These are questions you should be able to answer after reading this paper. Acid Rain, or acid precipitation, is the word used to describe rainfall that has a pH level of less than 5.6. This form of air pollution is currently a subject of great controversy because of its worldwide environmental damages. Acid …

…that is where the EPA comes in. The Environmental Protection Agency has started the Acid Rain Program whose purpose is to achieve significant environmental and public health benefits through reductions in emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOX). They are doing this by regulating the amount large companies and factories are allowed to emit into the atmosphere. This program decreased the amount of SO2 and NOX being emitted by man by almost 50% (“EPA”).