Sentences with phrase «tons of acid rain»

Norilsk factories also emit 2 million tons of acid rain — causing sulfur dioxide per year, roughly 1 percent of all that is emitted worldwide.

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Scientists estimate that one - third of the world's acid rain falls near the coasts, carrying some 100 million tons of nitrogen oxide, ammonia, and sulfur dioxide into the ocean each year.

Prior to the 1990 US acid rain program implementation, American generating stations emitted 24 million tons of SO2 and current emissions are about 10.5 million tons.

Nationwide, acid rain emissions fell by three million tons that year, well ahead of the schedule required by law.