Effects of Acid Rain: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session ... May 28, 1980, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 |
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... cause direct damage to plants , animals and materials , because of their corrosive properties , but they also leach trace metals from the soils polluting ground water and depriving the soil of essen- tial nutrients . Over 300 lakes in ...
... cause direct damage to plants , animals and materials , because of their corrosive properties , but they also leach trace metals from the soils polluting ground water and depriving the soil of essen- tial nutrients . Over 300 lakes in ...
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... cause losses in aquatic life in this country . It may also and I emphasize " may " because we don't under- stand the effects on forests or agricultural crops yet sufficiently to be able to say whether those constant emissions are now or ...
... cause losses in aquatic life in this country . It may also and I emphasize " may " because we don't under- stand the effects on forests or agricultural crops yet sufficiently to be able to say whether those constant emissions are now or ...
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... cause very sudden in- creases in acidity of soils , vegetation , and surface waters . Thus , a given organism or ecosystem may be subject to beneficial atmospheric influences at one time and to negative influences at another time within ...
... cause very sudden in- creases in acidity of soils , vegetation , and surface waters . Thus , a given organism or ecosystem may be subject to beneficial atmospheric influences at one time and to negative influences at another time within ...
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... cause very sudden increases in acidity of soils , Thus , a given organism or vegetation , and surface waters . ecosystem may be subject to beneficial atmospheric influences at one time and to negative influences at another time within a ...
... cause very sudden increases in acidity of soils , Thus , a given organism or vegetation , and surface waters . ecosystem may be subject to beneficial atmospheric influences at one time and to negative influences at another time within a ...
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... cause mortality among adult fish as a result of interference with physiological mechanisms regulating active ion exchange across gill membranes . In this case factors such as size , age , acclimation history , genetic background and ...
... cause mortality among adult fish as a result of interference with physiological mechanisms regulating active ion exchange across gill membranes . In this case factors such as size , age , acclimation history , genetic background and ...
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acid deposition acid precipitation acid rain acid rain problem acidity of precipitation Adirondack Adirondack Mountains aerosols agricultural air pollutants air quality analysis annual aquatic ecosystems areas assessment average biological burning Canada cause changes chemical Clean Air Act coal conversion coal-fired combustion Committee concentrations Congress COWLING crops damage decreased dry deposition ecological effects effects of acid Electric Energy estimates forest fuel HENDREY HUNTINGTON increase industry injurious inputs leaching levels Likens major metals monitoring NAAQS natural gas nitrogen oxides non-attainment North Norway nutrients oil backout organic percent POUNDSTONE power plants powerplants precipitation acidity precipitation chemistry processes rainfall ratio regions regulatory Senator DOMENICI Senator DURKIN Senator TSONGAS SIP's SO₂ SO2 emissions soil sources standards stations substances sulfate sulfur content sulfur dioxide surface waters tion tons toxic transport trends United utilities vegetation wet deposition
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Page 229 - neutral* point of precipitation. Any precipitation with a ph above 5.6 is said to be alkaline and any with a ph below that value is said to be ^/Technically, ph is expressed as the logarithm to the base 10 of the reciprocal of the hydrogen ion concentration in gram equivalents per liter of solution.
Page 539 - ... (b) (1) A petition for review of action of the Administrator in promulgating any national primary or secondary ambient air quality standard, any emission standard...
Page 729 - ... court and agency are not to be regarded as wholly independent and unrelated instrumentalities of justice, each acting in the performance of its prescribed statutory duty without regard to the appropriate function of the other in securing the plainly indicated objects of the statute. Court and agency are the means adopted to attain the prescribed end, and so far as their duties are defined by the words of the statute, those words should be construed so as to attain that end through co-ordinated...
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Page 539 - State has been notified of such action, file with the United States court of appeals for the circuit in which such State is located or with the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, a petition for review of such action.
Page 539 - Any petition for review under this subsection shall be filed within sixty days from the date notice of such promulgation, approval, or action appears in the Federal Register, except that if such petition is based solely on grounds arising after such sixtieth day, then any petition...
Page 729 - For the standards of the public interest not the requirements of private litigation measure the propriety and need for injunctive relief in these cases.
Page 544 - ... (A) arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law ; ( B ) contrary to constitutional right, power, privilege, or immunity ; (C) in excess of statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right ; or (D) without observance of procedure required by law...
Page 60 - ... decreased forest growth, increased plant diseases, and accelerated damage to materials. These conclusions and hypotheses led to a veritable storm of scientific and public concern about acid precipitation.
Page 303 - I am confident that once regulations are established by law, such travel time will be scheduled during the employees' regular work hours, however, in the event of any emergency, an employee will be paid for travel time outside of his regular scheduled work hours. I want to thank you, Mr. Chairman and members of this committee, for...