Acid Rain Research: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment of the Committee on Science and Technology, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, First Session, April 3, 1985U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 159 pages |
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... going to consider them in tandem - and review the present scientific knowledge about acid rain and to what conclusions the existing body of knowledge leads us . It was thought at one time that acid rain might be a unique problem ...
... going to consider them in tandem - and review the present scientific knowledge about acid rain and to what conclusions the existing body of knowledge leads us . It was thought at one time that acid rain might be a unique problem ...
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... going far beyond an eastern regional context , the Reagan administration continues to oppose all proposals to reduce the sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions which apparently cause acid rain . Instead the Reagan administration has ...
... going far beyond an eastern regional context , the Reagan administration continues to oppose all proposals to reduce the sulfur oxide and nitrogen oxide emissions which apparently cause acid rain . Instead the Reagan administration has ...
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... going to apply them to the stream of commerce here , the mainstream of our thinking . It becomes fair at some point to ask if the research is being ap- plied with such a level of precision and certainty or is sought to be used only with ...
... going to apply them to the stream of commerce here , the mainstream of our thinking . It becomes fair at some point to ask if the research is being ap- plied with such a level of precision and certainty or is sought to be used only with ...
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... going the other way . In commercial cases you must have simply a preponderance of the evidence , and that would be the prudent - man rule . And that is what would sort of make sense here , just weighing it , would a pru- dent man come ...
... going the other way . In commercial cases you must have simply a preponderance of the evidence , and that would be the prudent - man rule . And that is what would sort of make sense here , just weighing it , would a pru- dent man come ...
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... going on . So these are the areas that we see as the top research needs . First of all , the need to increase monitoring in the sensitive areas of the West . By and large , the monitoring that is done of the sources is being done in the ...
... going on . So these are the areas that we see as the top research needs . First of all , the need to increase monitoring in the sensitive areas of the West . By and large , the monitoring that is done of the sources is being done in the ...
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Acid Precipitation ACID PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT acid rain acidic deposition acidification agencies air pollution alkalinity anthropogenic anthropogenic emissions aquatic ecosystems areas Arizona atmospheric average BERNABO budget California Cascades cause Chairman Clean Air Act Colorado Rockies concentrations Congress cooperation decline Deposition Monitoring dry deposition East eastern effects effort Environment environmental Federal Figure forest damage funding Germany going high elevations increase INT'L & COMP issue lakes legislation levels located looking major maps Mathews mean annual pH mountains NADP sites NAPAP National Acid Precipitation nitrate nitrogen oxides NOAA occur ozone percent potential Precipitation Assessment Program precipitation chemistry problem reduce regions RITTER ROSENCRANZ SCHEUER scientific scientists Sierra Nevada smelters soils sources southern sulfate sulfur dioxide sulfur emissions supra note surface waters survey tion Transboundary TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES United volume-weighted Wasatch Range watersheds West western wet deposition WETSTONE
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