These systems also minimize
the threats of acid rain, air pollution, the greenhouse effect and global warming — problems directly linked to the burning of fossil fuels.
Over months of contentious debate, while the Waxman - Markey bill and subsequent Senate action were being considered, millions of Americans were introduced for the first time to the phrase «cap and trade,» a regulatory approach that first came to prominence in the 1990s as the centerpiece of a national program to address
the threat of acid rain by limiting emissions of sulfur dioxide (SO2), primarily from electric power plants.
Consequently, the sulfates removed from the atmosphere removed
the threat of acid rain and CFC but allowed the human caused climate forcing to resume its course.
Not exact matches
Road salt poses the biggest environmental
threat to the Adirondack Park since
acid rain, say a coalition
of environmental groups, citing emerging scientific data detailing the effects on local watersheds.
I have a sort
of mental chart with lots
of arrows: actions that produce GHGs (e.g., coal - burning) causing a plethora
of problems (& goods — like power),
acid rain, ocean acidification, local ground, air, water pollution, GW, health problems & dangers for miners, military
threats / expenses (according to Pentagon studies re oil), etc.; and also many arrows
of good (some bad) coming out
of measures to abate GW.
When life on Earth ends, however, no one will know what caused it — the cause could have been ANY
of the MANY environmental
threats we were told were going to end life on Earth as we knew it, starting in the 1960s with DDT... then other pesticides,
acid rain, hole in the ozone layer, global warming, global cooling, climate change, etc..
Coming in at $ 5,000 a month is Idso's principal partner in the regular IPCC attack, Fred Singer, who for the last 20 years has denied pretty much any health
threat with a corporate sponsor: the health impacts
of second - hand smoke; coal's role in creating
acid rain; the danger
of asbestos; or DDT; the role
of CFCs in creating the ozone hole; and,
of course, the human cause and potential consequences
of climate change.
In the late 1970s the twin
threats of global cooling and
acid rain were the impetuous for creating regulations to curb above - ground - level aerosol / particulate pollution.