Eco Dilemmas: Acid Rain, Beer or Wine, and Wood Furniture

By Virginia Prescott on Tuesday, September 22, 2009.
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Back in the eighties, the steel industry’s collapse wasn’t the only thing plaguing Pittsburgh. Acid rain was the environmental scourge of the day, and Pittsburgh’s pH levels were the worst in the country. Since then we haven’t heard much about acid rain. Did it go away?

For answers to that and other under-the radar environmental questions, we turn to Nina Shen Rastogi. She writes the Green Lantern column for Slate.com, and joins us from New York to walk us through some eco dilemmas for our “next green thing” series.

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