{"id":14624,"date":"2025-05-31T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=14624"},"modified":"2025-05-23T08:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T08:01:39","slug":"acid-rain-history-1980s-crisis-solved-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/acid-rain-history-1980s-crisis-solved-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Whatever Happened to Acid Rain? The 1980s Crisis We Actually Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why Don&#039;t We Talk About Acid Rain Anymore?\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/atQjdaTZsPY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"\">Once a major environmental crisis, acid rain has sharply declined thanks to coordinated global action. Regulations like the U.S. Clean Air Act and technologies such as sulfur scrubbers and catalytic converters drastically cut emissions of sulfur and nitrogen oxides. The problem is not gone, but it is a rare success story showing that science-backed policy can work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Acid rain has not disappeared\u2014it declined because of coordinated action, offering a rare environmental success story that still needs vigilance to maintain.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.pexels.com\/photos\/459451\/pexels-photo-459451.jpeg?auto=compress&cs=tinysrgb&w=600","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[10905,10903,10900,10902,10907,10896,10914,10911,10913,10906,10908,10899,10912,10904,10910,10909,10901,341,10898,10897,10915,189],"class_list":{"0":"post-14624","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-earth","8":"tag-acid-precipitation-fossil-fuels","9":"tag-acid-rain-aquatic-ecosystem-damage","10":"tag-acid-rain-environmental-crisis","11":"tag-acid-rain-history-1980s","12":"tag-acid-rain-media-coverage-1980s","13":"tag-acid-rain-program-1995","14":"tag-acid-rain-shell-dissolution-marine-life","15":"tag-acid-rain-soil-chemistry-impact","16":"tag-acid-rain-success-story","17":"tag-catalytic-converters-emissions","18":"tag-china-acid-rain-reduction","19":"tag-clean-air-act-acid-rain","20":"tag-developing-countries-acid-rain","21":"tag-geneva-convention-air-quality","22":"tag-india-brazil-sulfur-emissions","23":"tag-nitrogen-oxide-pollution-rise","24":"tag-ph-3-7-rain-acidity","25":"tag-scishow","26":"tag-sulfur-dioxide-nitrogen-oxides-pollution","27":"tag-sulfur-scrubbers-power-plants","28":"tag-sustainable-technology-air-pollution-control","29":"tag-youtube","30":"post_format-post-format-video","31":"cs-entry","32":"cs-video-wrap"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14626,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14624\/revisions\/14626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}