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We may have fixed the sulfuric acid rain, that destroyed forests, killed fish and ate concrete, but now we have a new problem. Nitric acid from car emissions, coal plant emissions and our highly industrialized farming techniques. Talk about altering our environment to suit ourselves…(in another thread) From the article: “Overall, coal-fired power plants and motor vehicles spew out most of the nation’s nitrogen oxides, the feedstock for nitric acid rain. But a good deal of it also comes from the agricultural sector in the form of ammonia (NH3), which bacteria can convert to nitric acid on the ground.” http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=sour-showers added by: csmonut