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- Samantha, selected from TreeHugger
- April 26, 2012
- 4:32 pm
- 72 comments
By Brian Merchant, TreeHugger
There’s a pretty good chance you live in a city with air that’s so polluted it’s often unhealthy to breathe. Yes, you. Forty-one percent of Americans do. That’s 127 million people. That’s way too many.
The American Lung Association just released its annual ‘State of the Air’ report, which breaks down the most polluted cities in the nation. As usual, most of them can be found in California’s Central Valley. Here are the three different ‘top ten’ lists, according to the different kinds of pollution:
Cities with the Most Year-Round Particulate Pollution
#1: Bakersfield-Delano, CA
#2: Hanford-Corcoran, CA
#3: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
#4: Visalia-Porterville, CA
#5: Fresno-Madera, CA
#6: Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
#7: Phoenix-Mesa-Glendale, AZ
#8: Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN
#9: Louisville-Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN
#10: Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
#10 (It’s a tie!): St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
Next: Cities with the most short-term particulate pollution & ozone pollution
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Glad that I dont live in any of them, but I have been to number 3 and 6. Also number 10 is my homestate.
I am surprised that Houston is not in the top 10
California is not looking very good.
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oh God, that is so sad! the ones who can do something about it should start thinking, if not their health, their children's!!
I don't think people are so dirty, you have some trips on the wrong side.
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