The Myth of Acid Rain

" acid rain was a symptom of the bigger problem, which was a bunch of sulfur in the air," she says. "It's not necessarily that acid rain went away or that acid rain got solved." Power plants are now the biggest producer of toxic waste in the U.S., and they're dumping it into rivers near where crops are being grown. The reason we don't talk about acid rain anymore isn't because the threat was hyped; it's just one of 10,000 symptoms of exactly the same thing.