The EPA estimates that more than 65%, or over 13 million tons per year, of SO2 production in the U.S. comes from electric utilities, 93 percent of which is produced by coal power plants.
It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.
Apparently its also why fish are high in mercury because mercury in burnt coal eventually finds its way to the ocean.
It is also the most serious contributor to acid rain.
https://www.gem.wiki/Sulfur_dioxide_and_coal
It’s not even really an eventually, it’s about a direct as you get. It is exhausted into the sky, gets caught in the water cycle and rains back down to earth.