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Originally Posted by XxthejuicexX
Anyone remember acid rain??? When I was a kid I thought that was going to kill us all. I have not heard a peep about that since I was probably 12.
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That's because sulfur dioxide emissions that created sulfuric acid have been reduced by over %75 since we were kids.
This was mandated by the Amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990, and is largely done by "scrubbers" that wash the SO2 out of the flue gases at coal burning power plants.
So, scientific data lead to government regulation, which created a lot of construction and engineering jobs to get all these scrubbers built, and now we have eliminated acid rain, and still have the cheapest electricity in the country? Huh.
Graph here (or see attachment):
http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=10151
Billy