Sentences with phrase «working on acid rain»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

Bishop's work built on an earlier study of acid rain impacts on sugar maple forests in the Adirondacks.

Through the Kids Network, students work collaboratively to examine scientific issues, such as the effects of acid rain on vegetation in their area.

Cap and trade was first used to remove lead from gasoline and then worked into amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990 to force power plants to cut back on sulfur dioxide, one of the chemicals that produce acid rain.

Personally, I think the action is going to be elsewhere than waiting on the latest scientific prognostications which are all over the place anyway given a) the complexity of climate science (and I think Mike Hulme's characterisation of climate science as a wicked problem v tame problems like acid rain is correct) and b) the sheer number of departments / organisations, programmes, $ $ $ and scientists working on its characterisation.

While working on his Masters degree, he participated in field programs studying acid rain in the Northeast U.S. and air pollution in the Detroit area.

By the mid-1990s, acid rain research focused on how well the Clean Air Act Amendments were working.