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UT Research Reveals Certain Pollutants Worse Than Thought

Nitrous oxide pollution typically conjures up images of acid rain or a smokestack belching out industrial byproduct.

While that might be the poster child for such pollution, the reality is that manufacturing sources produce only about 10 percent of the nitrogren-based pollution.

The real culprit is something much more down to earth—literally.

Agricultural sources contribute the vast majority of this type of pollution through their use of nitrates, according to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by UT Professor Joshua Fu along with graduate student Jian Sun and research assistant professor Kan Huang, all of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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