{"id":546003,"date":"2010-04-28T12:44:56","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=11211"},"modified":"2010-04-28T12:44:56","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:44:56","slug":"calif-cities-dominate-list-of-metro-areas-with-worst-air-quality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/546003","title":{"rendered":"Calif. cities dominate list of metro areas with worst air quality"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Smog<\/p>\n

Smog across Los Angeles (Photo: NASA)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

From Green Right Now Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n

The American Lung Association State of the Air 2010 report<\/a> released today ranks the metropolitan areas by the levels of ozone and particle pollution during 2006, 2007 and 2008. For particle pollution, the ALA ranks separately the areas with high year-round (annual average) levels and high short-term levels (24-hour) found in monitoring sites across the United States. Data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is used to compile the rankings.<\/p>\n

The Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale area was the most polluted based on year-round particle pollution. The Los Angeles metro area had the most ozone pollution and Bakersfield, Calif., was worst for short-term particle pollution.<\/p>\n

Top 25 Most Polluted Cities\u00a0By Year-Round Particle Pollution:<\/h3>\n

1. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
\n2. Bakersfield, CA
\n3. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
\n3. Visalia-Porterville, CA
\n5. Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
\n6. Fresno-Madera, CA
\n7. Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL
\n8. Hanford-Corcoran, CA
\n9. Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN
\n9. St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL
\n11. Charleston, WV
\n11. Detroit-Warren-Flint, MI
\n11. Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH
\n14. Louisville-Jefferson County-Elizabethtown-Scottsburg, KY-IN
\n14. Modesto, CA
\n16. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL
\n16. Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX
\n16. Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
\n19. Cleveland-Akron-Elyria, OH
\n19. Macon-Warner Robins-Fort Valley, GA
\n21. Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
\n21. Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN
\n23. Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
\n24. Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN
\n25. Parkersburg-Marietta, WV-OH
\n25. York-Hanover-Gettysburg, PA<\/p>\n

Top 25 Most Polluted Cities By Ozone:<\/h3>\n

1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
\n2. Bakersfield, CA
\n3. Visalia-Porterville, CA
\n4. Fresno-Madera, CA
\n5. Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Yuba City, CA-NV
\n6. Hanford-Corcoran, CA
\n7. Houston-Baytown-Huntsville, TX
\n8. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA
\n9. San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA
\n10. Charlotte-Gastonia-Salisbury, NC-SC
\n11. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
\n12. Merced, CA
\n13. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX
\n14. Knoxville-Sevierville-La Follette, TN
\n15. El Centro, CA
\n16. New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA
\n16. Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
\n18. Cincinnati-Middletown-Wilmington, OH-KY-IN
\n19. Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Gainesville, GA-AL
\n19. Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL
\n21. Las Vegas-Paradise-Pahrump, NV
\n22. Modesto, CA
\n22. Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
\n24. Chico, CA
\n25. Baton Rouge-Pierre Part, LA<\/p>\n

Top 25 Most Polluted Cities\u00a0By Short-Term Particle Pollution:<\/h3>\n

1. Bakersfield, CA
\n2. Fresno-Madera, CA
\n3. Pittsburgh-New Castle, PA
\n4. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside, CA
\n5. Birmingham-Hoover-Cullman, AL
\n6. Sacramento-Arden-Arcade-Yuba City, CA-NV
\n7. Salt Lake City-Ogden-Clearfield, UT
\n8. Visalia-Porterville, CA
\n9. Modesto, CA
\n10. Hanford-Corcoran, CA
\n11. Merced, CA
\n12. Philadelphia-Camden-Vineland, PA-NJ-DE-MD
\n13. Provo-Orem, UT
\n14. Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
\n15. Stockton, CA
\n16. Chicago-Naperville-Michigan City, IL-IN-WI
\n17. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, CA
\n18. Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV
\n18. New York-Newark-Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA
\n18. Logan, UT-ID
\n21. Eugene-Springfield, OR
\n22. Harrisburg-Carlisle-Lebanon, PA
\n23. San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA
\n23. Indianapolis-Anderson-Columbus, IN
\n23. Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ<\/p>\n

For details on each city’s ranking,\u00a0see the full report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Smog across Los Angeles (Photo: NASA) From Green Right Now Reports The American Lung Association State of the Air 2010 report released today ranks the metropolitan areas by the levels of ozone and particle pollution during 2006, 2007 and 2008. For particle pollution, the ALA ranks separately the areas with high year-round (annual average) levels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}