Improving China's acid rain control strategy

Thursday, October 15, 2009 - 04:21 in Earth & Climate

Scientists are reporting the first evidence that China's sharp focus on reducing widespread damage to soil by acid rain by restricting sulphur dioxide air pollution may have an unexpected consequence: Gains from that pollution control program will be largely offset by increases in nitrogen emissions, which the country's current policy largely overlooks. The study, which suggests that government officials adapt a more comprehensive pollution control strategy that includes a new emphasis on cutting nitrogen emissions, is scheduled for the 1 November issue of ACS' Environmental Science and Technology, a semi-monthly journal...

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