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Ask a Scientist, with NASA’s Dr. Kate Marvel

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What Happened to Acid Rain?

After World War II, you saw massive increases associated with industrialization of pollutants into the atmosphere. Clean air legislation did clean up a lot of the sulfur dioxide pollution. And so we saw a decrease in atmospheric aerosols. We saw a decrease not evenly concentrated in aerosol pollution. And most importantly, we saw a decreases in the incidence of acid rain.

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