Fox host: We don’t need smog rules because ‘whatever happened with acid rain?’ (Spoiler: Laws worked)

Fox host: We don’t need smog rules because ‘whatever happened with acid rain?’ (Spoiler: Laws worked)

"the reason Morris can’t remember “whatever happened to acid rain” is because regulations worked.

Beginning in 1980, Congress began passing laws like the Acid Deposition Act, President George H. W. Bush amended the Clean Air Act during his term, and the EPA issued the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) under President George W. Bush.

More than 20 years after the government began regulating acid rain, the EPA estimated that 2009 sulfur dioxide levels were cut to about one-third of what they were in 1990. But the EPA has also said that further reductions are still needed to recover from the effects of acid rain."