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Clean Air Act, designed for humans, saved billion-plus birds
Updated Dec 10, 2020;
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While the federal Clean Air Act was enacted to protect humans from air pollution, it also has saved birds.
The cleaner air resulting from the pollution regulations has saved 1.5 billion birds, nearly 20 percent of all birdlife in the U.S. today, according to researchers at Cornell University and the University of Oregon.
“Our research shows that the benefits of environmental regulation have likely been underestimated,” said Ivan Rudik, a lead author and Ruth and William Morgan Assistant Professor at Cornell’s Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.