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Thu 03 Mar 2008What made the acid rain myth finally
evaporate?
DR WILLIAM REVILLE UNDER THE MICROSCOPEWhatever happened to acid rain? Back in the 1970s and 1980s it was killing our forests, acidifying lakes so they could no longer support life, and leaching metals out of soil into waterways where they could attack human health. Feelings ran high.
In 1993, John Gummer, UK secretary for the environment was called a drittsekk ("sack of shit") by Thorbjorn Bernsten, Gummer's Norwegian counterpart, for failing to take air pollution seriously.
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