Whatever Happened To...: Acid Rain?

There is more money and politics in global warming.

beat me to it, which begs the question; what is next?

What happened was regulation that limited the amount of pollution that could be released into the environment.

No pollution = no problem. This is why our rivers don't catch fire anymore - environmental regulation. This is another example where environmental regulation has worked to make the world a better place.

Acid rain is not gone, it's just not nearly the problem that it once was. It still occurs - in my own backyard. I live two miles from the chemical mega-complex near the Houston Port Authority. Whenever we go several weeks without a rain, and then get a good one, the acid level of the water in my swimming pool goes off the scale of my measuring kit - way to the acid side.

It's now globally-warmed acid rain, swum in by lesbian whales against the bomb....