Assertion: acid rain | /r/CapableOf | fall in area
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text: They cooked up a number of talking points in order to delay action on the issue, e.g. blaming acid rain on volcanoes (in fact, acid rain was also falling in areas nowhere close to volcanoes long after eruptions and prior research had ruled this out already as the only cause) and claiming the problem was hyped as many waterways were not severely acidified (this was due in part to absorption of acidic chemicals into soils such that they didn't run off into water supplies, however, soil acidification was often selectively ignored by deniers).