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sources it is entrusted with — while the Bush administration is headed in the opposite direction, fighting against regulation the White House says is crippling industry.
Public attention has been modest. But if emissions from coal-fired power plants aren’t on everyone’s mind in this region, they certainly fall on their shoulders.
According to David Haskell, chief of the park’s division of natural resources, power plants in Virginia annually dump an average of 8.9 pounds of sulfur dioxide particulates per acre over Northern Virginia, or 5,696 pounds for each square mile. That comes to some 1,880 tons of particulate matter falling on Fauquier each year.
Haskell says that figures for nitrogen oxide emissions aren’t available.
Beneath the scientific debate, there is a political tug-of-war between the federal agency and the Administration that has put Virginia — and the park — at the forefront of a national debate on acid rain, which results when rain picks up airborne sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emitted during cbmbustion of fossil fuels.
On several occasions in the past few years, streams in the park — at the forefront of a national debate on acid rain, which results when rain picks up airborne sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emitted during combustion of fossil fuels.
On several occasions in the past few years, streams in the park have
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