"Stop Acid Rain" Button
Object Details
- Description
- Acid rain emerged as a disquieting problem in the eastern United States and Canada during the 1980s. The principal cause was sulfur dioxide emitted from coal-fired power plants, which acidified rain and snow and thereby damaged forests and killed aquatic life. This button reflects citizen-led efforts during the 1984 presidential campaign to confront a politically fraught environmental challenge.
- The button is among the more than 1,500 pin-backed environmental buttons that Gerald H. Meral donated to the National Museum of American History. Meral spent his career addressing natural resource concerns for the California state government and California-based non-governmental organizations. He began assembling his button collection in 1970.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- 2003.0014.1321
- accession number
- 2003.0014
- catalog number
- 2003.0014.1321
- Object Name
- button
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: .33 cm x 5.8 cm; 1/8 in x 2 9/32 in
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- Medicine and Science: Biological Sciences
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Health & Medicine
- American Enterprise
- Environmental Buttons
- Exhibition
- American Enterprise
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Environmental Movement
- Record ID
- nmah_1285378
