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Regrettably, governments
continue to address them
separately, putting one at
risk as the other grows.
Air pollution has proven to be such a difficult problem to
address that a book might be written about the history
of attempts to address it. Some of the answers have
even contributed to the problem: The tall smokestacks
built in the 1960’sand 1970’s to disperse emissions
from huge coal burning power plants became conduits
to the upper atmosphere for the pollutants that form
acid rain.