Clean Air Act Helped Reduce Metal Pollution in Adirondack Waters by 90%, Study Finds

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesApr 28, 2025, 12:24 pm116 pts
University of Albany researchers have presented the first recorded evidence that surface waters in the Adirondack Mountains have made an almost complete recovery — 90 percent — from metal pollution since enactment of the Clean Air Act. Amended in the decades since it first passed in 1963, the Clean Air Act…

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Clean Air Act Helped Reduce Metal Pollution in Adirondack Waters by 90%, Study Finds

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