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Industrial pollution once ravaged the Adirondacks − decades of history captured in lake mud track their slow recovery

By Sky Hooler, Ph.D. Student in Environmental Science, University at Albany, State University of New York
Aubrey Hillman, Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, University at Albany, State University of New York

Acid rain and metals from power plants, vehicles and industries reached remote mountain lakes for years. Evidence from those lakes today shows the success of the Clean Air Act.

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