Excerpt from Acid Rain Oversight: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Power of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session; May 26, June 15, 20 and 22, 1988 Mr. Sharp. We have decided to limit ourselves to one panel today so that we have a chance to gain a little better understand ing of the issues that are before us, but we have made sure that the witnesses invited all are of a scientific background. All have been involved in the scientific questions related to acid rain or acid deposition, and in fact represent a variety of points of view with respect to the science on this question, as I understand it. At least that will become perhaps evident as we proceed. First, we have Dr. James Mahoney, Director of the National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program, N afaf; Dr. Ellis Cowling, As sociate Dean for Research with the College of Forest Resources at North Carolina State University; Dr. George Hidy, Vice President and Director of Environmental Studies with the Electric Power Re search Institute; Dr. James Galloway, Associate Professor with the Department Of Environmental Science at Clark Hall, University of Virginia, and Dr. Robert Friedman, the Project Director for Ocean and Environmental Program with ota. Gentlemen, I think you are all familiar with our procedures. We will be more than pleased to make a part of our written record your written statement and documents you wish to include with it and we welcome at this point an oral summary of your testimony. We appreciate the fact that we sent you some written questions and we're asking you in a sense to reshape knowledge that you al ready have but we are also aware that we gave you very little time in which to prepare. We will try to be understanding of the fact that we imposed a very short deadline upon you, but nonetheless hope that you can seriously help us address the questions that vari ous committee members will have. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.