The Nation - News from Aug. 25, 1989
Reducing industrial sulfur emissions would help restore Northeast lakes damaged by acid rain and would prevent impairment of waterways in the southern Appalachian Mountains, federal researchers said. The Environmental Protection Agency said a study of 3,200 lakes in the Northeast, including New England and parts of New York and Pennsylvania, found that cutting sulfur emissions by 30% in the next 50 years would roughly halve the number of “dead” lakes--those too acidic to support aquatic life--and would decrease greatly the number susceptible to periodic damage.
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