Acid Rain: A Survey of Data and Current Analyses : A Report Prepared by the Congressional Research Service for the Use of the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 98th Congress, Second Session, May 1984 |
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Page 81 - Services (DHHS); the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA); the National Science Foundation (NSF); and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program is now operational.
Page 789 - Acidified Lake Districts of the World: A Comparison of Water Chemistry of Lakes in Southern Norway, Southern Sweden, Southwestern Scotland, the Adirondack Mountains of New York and Southeastern Ontario," in Proceedings of the International Conference on the Ecological Impact of Acid Precipitation D.
Page 81 - Intent to develop a bilateral agreement on transboundary air pollution including "the already serious problem of acid rain." To provide a suitable technical and scientific foundation for the formulation of such an agreement, five bilateral workgroups were established to prepare scientific reports on the following specific aspects of the problem: impact assessment; atmospheric modeling; strategies development and implementation; emissions, costs, and engineering assessments; legal, institutional arrangements;...
Page 45 - Chairman; one representative from the Office of Science and Technology in the Executive Office of the President...
Page 558 - CONTROLLING ACID RAIN by James A. Fay, Dan Golomb and James Gruhl Energy Laboratory Report No. MIT-EL 83-004 April 1983 *This work was funded by the Champion International Foundation and the Center for Energy Policy Research of the MIT Energy Laboratory, and that support is gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank Drs. LC Cox, DC White, JM Deutch and JM Beer for stimulating ideas, advice and data, and Ms. A.
Page 426 - If we take the conservative point of view that we must wait until the scientific knowledge is definitive, the accumulated deposition and damaged environment may reach the point of...
Page 114 - ... endeavour to limit and, as far as possible, gradually reduce and prevent air pollution including long-range transboundary air pollution.
Page 76 - Network and it provided the first large-scale and long-term data on the changing chemistry of precipitation and its importance for agriculture and forestry (Emanuelsson et al 1954; Egnerct.il..
Page 619 - Any person who is affected or may be affected by a nuisance caused by environmentally harmful activities in another Contracting State shall have the right to bring before the appropriate Court or Administrative Authority of that State the question of the permissibility of such activities, including the question of measures to prevent damage, and to appeal against the decision of the Court or the Administrative Authority to the same extent and on the same terms as a legal entity of the State...
Page 145 - Gorham had established a major part of our present understanding of the sources and the limnologicsl and ecological significance of acidity in precipitation. But these pioneering researches were met by a thundering silence from both the scientific community and the public at large. This lack of recognition may have resulted in part because Gorham published his highly interdisciplinary researches in a diverse array of respected scientific journals. Whatever the reason, this lack of recognition resulted...