Burning fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas may release sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides and carbonic dioxide into the atmosphere as a product if the fuel conations sulfur, nitrogen or carbon. ... Advertise and promote alternative energy sources rather than fossil fuels. ... The government should make rules and regulations and laws of reducing the use of fossil fuels, they should pass bills regarding at least 4 people in a car etc. ... The simplest way to cut these emissions is to use less energy from fossil fuels. ... Well, yes they are expensive but if we reduce the use of fossil...

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The very root of the process begins at factories that generate electricity that relies on burning fossil fuels like coal. ... When these fuels are released into the air they are transformed into sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. ... The best thing factories could do is to switch fuels. There are several other sources that can be used besides the usual fossil fuels to operate factories. ... Therefore, it is important for society to influence the government, so they will oversee power plants and factories to make sure they are using less harmful means of energy than fossil fuel...

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The EPA states that fossil fuel-fired electric utility plants are responsible for 70 percent of the annual SO2 and 30 percent of NOX emissions in the United States. ... To achieve this goal, two phases of restrictions would be placed on fossil fuel-fired power plants. ... Under the Acid Rain Program's free-market based approach, individual utility units are given allowances or "credits" based on historical fuel consumption and emissions data. ... A source may opt to reduce its SO2 emissions by switching to a cleaner fuel, redirecting operations to cleaner units, or reducing output...

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The indication is that because of human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels, levels of greenhouse gases are now increasing, especially carbon dioxide levels. ... The historic example usually cited is the substitution of coal for wood as the principal fuel of Western Europe, after the forests there became depleted. ... Ironically, even initiatives to develop alternative sources employ fossil fuel energy for their efforts. ... Acid rain is produced by the burning of fossil fuels, especially coal burned to generate electric power. ...

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But once again, human factors can have a drastic effect on the environment and the creation of acid rain, such as combustion of fossil fuels by power plants. When we burn fossil fuels, sulfur is released and combined with oxygen in the air to form sulfur dioxide (SO2). ... Workers in the factory can avoid using fossil fuels to burn or power up their factory. ...

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Almost all of the electricity that powers modern life comes form the burning of fossil fuels (coal, natural gas, and oil). Sulfur dioxide (SO2) and Nitrogen oxides (NOx) are emitted into the atmosphere from burning these fossil fuels. ... Examples of these are using natural gas, battery-powered cars, fuel cells, and a combination of alternative and gasoline powered vehicles. ...

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These pollutants come from the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal, natural gas, and oil, and from certain kinds of factory distributions. ... Nitrogen oxides are released into the air by burning fuels such as gasoline and coal. ... Motor vehicles, industries, burning coal, gasoline, other fossil fuels; along with chemicals that are in hairspray and paints release ozone. ... Particulate matter (PM), little particles of pollution, are released by cars, trucks, and buses that are burning diesel fuel, fertilizers, pesticides, road construction, steel making, mining, and turning on fire places...

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Scientists have found that pollution in the air from the burning of fossil fuels is the main cause of acid rain. ... However, the burning of fossil fuels, such as coal and oil, do not help the situation and are largely to blame for approximately half of the emissions of this gas in the world. ...

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It can be "any precipitation such as rain, snow, sleet, hail, fog and dew, or dry deposition, that contains sulfuric or nitric acids formed in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels." ... Most air pollution is produced by burning fossil fuels like coal and to a lesser degree oil and natural gas. When these fuels are burned from the tall smokestacks of power plants, metal smelters, industrial boilers and cars, planes and trains, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide escape into the air. ...

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According to Effects of Pollution by Scott Forseman, pollution is defined as the addition of any substance or form of energy to the environment at a rate faster than the environment can accommodate it by dispersion, decomposition, recycling, or storage in some harmless form. In my course of research, I uncovered many forms pollution. However, the ones I included were the forms of pollution that may interfere with our present and future existence. In this paper, air, water, and land pollutions have been identified and explained, as well as the consequences of these pollutants, also some possi...

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Becki Hall Human Ecology March 25, 2002 Air Pollution Dust from the cracked, dry earth mists the sky. The horizon supports the afternoon sun. In the distance, two silhouettes come walking forward. The closer they two figures get, the more clearly distinguishable they become. It is a fath...

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Review the effect of acid rain on the local distributions of fish and aquatic invertebrates. What are the biological reasons for the disappearance of these animals as pH falls? Humans produce about 160% of the natural emissions of sulphur. This is compared with about 5-10% in the case of carbon...

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Natural sources such as volcanoes, sea spray, rotting vegetation and plankton are all contributors to acid rain, but burning fossil fuels, such as coal and oil which are referred to as dry emissions are largely to blame for more than half of the emissions into the world.2 Nationally, one hundred and twenty tons of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are emitted into the air each day.4A. ...

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