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

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

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 was one of the United States’ first environmental laws and was intended to lower and control the country’s air pollution. One of the primary …