Who Is Breathing The Worst Air In America?

[KaskaMiska]

The report looks at three different indicators for overall air quality: ozone levels, year-round particle pollution, and short-term particle pollution. L.A. ranked at the top of ozone pollution, while the Fresno-Madera region of Central California ranked at the top of both year-round and short-term pollution. So while L.A. is not categorically the worst it's definitely in the top five, depending on how you look at it. The argument could also be made that since L.A.'s metropolitan area is over 18 million people, which is many times larger than any of the other top offenders, L.A.'s bad air is putting far more people at risk.

 

By Ozone 

#1: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
#2: Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA
#3: Bakersfield, CA
#4: Fresno-Madera, CA
#5: Sacramento-Roseville, CA
#6: Houston-The Woodlands, TX
#7: Modesto-Merced, CA
#8: Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA
#8: Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK
#10: Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ
#11: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
#12: New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA
#13: St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
#14: Tulsa-Muskogee-Bartlesville, OK
#15: Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN
#16: Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD
#17: El Centro, CA
#18: Louisville-Jefferson County-Madison, KY-IN
#19: Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK
#20: Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI
#21: Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV
#22: Fort Collins, CO
#23: Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL
#24: Sheboygan, WI
#24: Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH

By Year Round Particle Pollution

#1: Fresno-Madera, CA
#2: Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA
#3: Bakersfield, CA
#3: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
#5: Modesto-Merced, CA
#6: Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV
#7: El Centro, CA
#8: El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM
#8: St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
#8: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
#11: Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN
#11: Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD
#13: New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA
#13: Louisville-Jefferson County-Madison, KY-IN
#15: Macon-Warner Robins, GA
#16: Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL
#16: Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH
#18: Atlanta-Sandy Springs, GA
#19: Wheeling, WV-OH
#20: Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI
#20: Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN
#22: Columbus-Auburn-Opelika, GA-AL
#23: San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
#23: Johnstown-Somerset, PA
#23: Dayton-Springfield-Sidney, OH

 

By Short-Term Particle Pollution

 

#1: Fresno-Madera, CA
#2: Visalia-Porterville-Hanford, CA
#3: Bakersfield, CA
#4: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
#5: Modesto-Merced, CA
#6: Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV
#7: Fairbanks, AK
#8: Salt Lake City-Provo-Orem, UT
#9: El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM
#10: San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA
#11: Logan, UT-ID
#12: Missoula, MT
#13: Davenport-Moline, IA-IL
#14: Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI
#15: Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
#16: New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA
#16: Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN
#18: Lancaster, PA
#18: Harrisburg-York-Lebanon, PA
#20: San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
#21: Seattle-Tacoma, WA
#21: Yakima, WA
#23: South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI
#23: Green Bay-Shawano, WI
#25: Sacramento-Roseville, CA
 

[Maximus]

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[argadorn]

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