Contributors to Sulfur Dioxide in Acid Rain

The fact that electric utilities account for 67% shows how much work we have in that industry. We need to find ways to reduce the amount of pollutants released into the atmosphere. Acid Rain is detrimental to monuments and to our water quality as well.

I'm surprised that transportation only accounts for 5%. There is so much publicity on the damage that cars do to the atmosphere, I'm not saying that we shouldn't try to reduce that, but we should really put our main focus elsewhere. Obviously we need to aim a lot of the concern and efforts towards reducing the amounts of pollutants produced by the electric utilities. We also need to let people know what the main source of pollutants to the atmosphere are because I didn't know that electric utilities were the main source until I saw this graph.

I was also surprised just like Caroline. I had always thought that industrial sources were the highest source of acid rain. After thinking about it, it makes sense because acid rain can come from sulfur dioxide emissions, which are commonly released when electricity is generated.