Acid rain has been greatly reduced but tons of toxis still drift down each year. MARCH 4, 2013— -- Acid rain commanded as much attention in the 1990s as global warming or the hole in the ozone ...

The United States could see the return of toxic acid rain, an environmental problem thought to have been solved decades ago, due to the White House's rollback of pollution protections, according to an ...

You've probably heard of acid rain: rain that's more acidic than normal because of pollution in the atmosphere. But, if rain ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Acid rain is a serious environmental problem caused by air pollution. It forms when sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are released into the atmosphere, mainly from burning fossil fuels ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adding scrubbers in coal-fired power plants helped reduce acid rain, but they continued to fuel climate change. Drums600 via ...

With the pesticide DDT, lead paint, and the power plant emissions that were causing acid rain, growing public outcry eventually led to policy changes, despite pushback from industry. Climate change ...

Our state is part of the region that consistently leads the nation in emissions of acid rain-producing sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides. Pennsylvania is a leader in acid rain in the U.S. Acid rain ...

Acid rain from fossil fuel pollution may be quietly training soil bacteria to become longer-lived, more transmissible, and more deadly, according to a new study in the journal New Contaminants that ...

If a superacid like carborane, that can disintegrate things instantly, came raining down from the sky, it would destroy everything in its path: entire buildings, cars and even you. But luckily we ...

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit today challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s failure to assess harms to endangered wildlife and plants when determining the ...