Burlington Free Press. (2019, October 2). The Adirondacks are seeing rapid ride in acid rain, group says. From https://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/2019/10/02/adirondacks-seeing-rapid-rise-acid-rain-group-says/3841292002/

 

In Albany, New York a group of explorers traveled up to the Adirondacks Park and noticed acid rain starting to appear again. This was pretty unfortunate especially because in the past decades it was successfully stabilized. The Adirondack Council evaluated federal data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), which indicated that bringing back coal as a crucial fuel has created more acid rain in the park’s land. Since 2017 the clouds have been getting more acidic which therefore release more acidic precipitation. The group is very aware towards the parks protection against acid rain because, even though the park has had an atrocious acid rain damage in the past, it the world’s largest, undamaged deciduous forest ecosystem to date. Another blaming for the increasing of acid rain measurement were because Trump administration reduced pollution standards in the Adirondacks Park. The Adirondacks Council said the EPA data they were examining reveals the air traveling to New York came from West Virginia, which has various production of power pants increasing more and more as the years pass.

 

This affects the environment of the Adirondacks Park because its been years since the park has been this acidic. Too much of the sulfur dioxide if being absorbed from the trees and habitats which then destroy them in the long run. I think we can reduce this damage by using low sulfur coal. It would be very difficult to completely get rid of coal as it is a predominant source for fuel, but it is possible to reduce the sulfur dioxide being released from it.