In an article written by Amanda Briney she talks about what governments do to help stop acid rain. “[M]any governments are now requiring energy producers to clean smoke stacks by using scrubbers which trap pollutants before they are released into the atmosphere and catalytic converters in cars to reduce their emissions.”(Briney 3) With government doing their part to help, acid rain will start to fall less often. This will happen so long that power plants follow the rules that the government put in place.
Acid rain along with the other forms of acid deposition hurt the environment, and people can help stop it. Once people identify the problem, and what causes it, they can help. The gases that cause acid rain comes from many different sources: