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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... indicated that technological and financial resources are available to deal with the problem of acid rain . New emissions control devices can reduce SO2 emissions from an average of 80 lbs . per ton of coal in existing plants to below ...
... indicated that technological and financial resources are available to deal with the problem of acid rain . New emissions control devices can reduce SO2 emissions from an average of 80 lbs . per ton of coal in existing plants to below ...
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... indicate , if you sat in this seat and you had to vote , how you would vote . Dr. COWLING . It is very clear how I would vote . Senator TSONGAS . All right . That is why I am trying to get at . Dr. COWLING . But I would have to say that ...
... indicate , if you sat in this seat and you had to vote , how you would vote . Dr. COWLING . It is very clear how I would vote . Senator TSONGAS . All right . That is why I am trying to get at . Dr. COWLING . But I would have to say that ...
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... indicate that the elimination of fish is often a result of chronic reproductive failure in acid conditions and of damage done to sensitive stages , especially the newly hatched larvae . Such a process is insidious and not readily ...
... indicate that the elimination of fish is often a result of chronic reproductive failure in acid conditions and of damage done to sensitive stages , especially the newly hatched larvae . Such a process is insidious and not readily ...
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... indicates presently operating sites ( numbered plots ) and sites planned to be operational in 1979 ( X ) . The participating institutions and agencies include 21 State Agricultural Experiment Stations ( SAES ) , 4 U.S. Forest Service ...
... indicates presently operating sites ( numbered plots ) and sites planned to be operational in 1979 ( X ) . The participating institutions and agencies include 21 State Agricultural Experiment Stations ( SAES ) , 4 U.S. Forest Service ...
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... indicate that acid precipitation in one state or region of the United States or Canada results in part from emissions into the atmosphere in other states or regions often many hundreds of kilometers from the original source of the ...
... indicate that acid precipitation in one state or region of the United States or Canada results in part from emissions into the atmosphere in other states or regions often many hundreds of kilometers from the original source of the ...
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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...