Sentences with phrase «on acid rain»

For more than 44 years the modest program (it costs but $ 2 million a year) located near Kenora, Ontario, conducted ground breaking research on acid rain, toxic metals, phosphates, algal blooms, climate change and mercury that eventually strengthened water pollution legislation around the world.

In her work, Rothschild finds that the impetus for cooperating across the Iron Curtain on air pollution monitoring came not from Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, as other historians have argued, but from a group of scientists and environmental officials in Norway working on acid rain in the early - to - mid-1970s.

«EMEP's formation illuminates the importance of developing technological networks and international research projects on acid rain in furthering both détente among European countries as well as international research and policies for environmental protection,» she concludes.

These whole - lake studies led to groundbreaking insights on acid rain, mercury transport, gender - bending hormones and phosphate pollution.

But what would happen in a personal argument — or in the Canada-U.S. debate on acid rain — if one side said: «I am good and you are evil.»

In vetoing the bill, Reagan, who has dragged his feet on acid rain for six years and has underfunded the EPA, seemed all too willing to draw battle lines.

I will make a prediction that this article will do more for responsible decisions on acid rain than anything done past, present or future.

ALBANY — A slowdown on acid rain research, untrammeled poaching, dirtier rivers and even a poor fishing season are possible results of the state's plans to lay off up to 209 Department of Environmental Conservation employees, environmentalists warned Wednesday.

His administration became the first in the country to develop an Energy Plan and to sign into law controls on acid rain among many undertakings.»

«Norway capitalized on the openings in the Iron Curtain provided by technological cooperation with the Eastern Bloc to begin earning their support for UN negotiations on acid rain,» she writes.

Yet its monitoring programme at 32 sites around Britain provides the nation's basic data on acid rain.

Negotiators drawing up a treaty on acid rain decided at the end of last month that it would cost too much to include them.

[Response: The amount you would inject into the stratosphere would be small compared to what coal burning power plants already put into the troposphere, so the incremental effect globally on acid rain probably wouldn't be the real problem.

Besides her rants about climate change and the IPCC, she also expresses fringe opinions on acid rain and ozone depletion.

At that time environmentalists were making strides in shutting coal plants and tightening federal regulations on acid rain and smog - forming chemicals.

The coal industry attacked the emerging scientific consensus on acid rain.

At university, I wrote my masters thesis on acid rain from coal plants.

In 1990, President Bush signed a Clean Air Act amendment on acid rain, and, two years later, he signed a global - warming treaty at a United Nations meeting in Rio de Janeiro.

The Philadelphia native helped lay the groundwork while at EDF for acid rain pollution curbs, moved to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 1989 to work on acid rain provisions in what became the landmark Clean Air Act amendments of 1990, then went to EPA to implement the new law.

He led the EDF team that President George H.W. Bush praised for breaking the logjam on acid rain.

They also hosted a seminar on acid rain and issued publications on air pollution, water pollution, and public participation in the hearing process.

But McIntosh, who is now a lobbyist with Siemens AG, says Goffman remained involved in the climate legislation, offering advice on policy and coalition building from his decades working on acid rain and other issues.

So in the 1980s the British government and scientists from the Central Electricity Generating Board demanded more research on acid rain, arguing that existing scientific data, which was good enough for most other countries, was too uncertain.