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L.A. tops list of nation's most polluted
by Victoria Revay | May 1, 2007 at 02:03 pm | 1486 views | 2 comments
Not surprising: Los Angeles is smoggy and the air quality sucks. The American Lung Association just released a report that found that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside metropolitan area had the worst air quality based on 2003-2005 figures. Here are the top five offenders:
- Los Angeles
- Pittsburgh
- Bakersfield
- Birmingham
- Detroit
Hmmm, so air quality seems to be getting better, despite overall population and economic growth in these United States? Why doesn't that sort of thing ever get pushed to the top of such stories?Source: reason.com via Victoria Revay
"Nobody is surprised that LA has an air pollution problem," said Janice Nolen, the association's assistant vice president for national policy and advocacy. "The problems there are one of the reasons we have the Clean Air Act. But it is important for folks to know that there has been some improvement."Source: news.yahoo.com via Victoria Revay
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Comments (2)
No one here mentioned that California has "special clean air laws of it's own" more stringent than elsewhere. HHhhmmmmm
Why didn't the "extra effort" that they push into laws, do more ?
Good news overall, you know - I see more birds than I have over the past years too.
I'm just a canary in a coal mine. Thanks for some good news.
Those photos bring back tragic memories of going to high school in LA -- they'd have to cancel sports practice about ten times a year because kids were choking and gasping out on the field. Damn, I'd heard things had gotten better since the '80s...