Acid rain has many harmful effects on earth s air and water supply.
This paper will attempt to describe acid rain and the major problems it is causing. I will look at what causes acid rain and what the long-term impact might be to the earth s air and water environment. Possible solutions will be examined and evaluated. When air pollution reduction was necessary to meet government standards, most coal-burning power plants, ore smelters, and other industrial plants in MDCs used tall smokestacks to emit sulfur dioxide, suspended particles, and nitrogen oxides above earth s inversion layer. As this practice spread in the 1960s and 1970s, pollution in downwind areas began to increase.