Despite some gains, more than half of the United States' population lives in cities where pollution levels make the air unhealthy to breathe, an annual report says.
Cities in California dominated the most-polluted list in the American Lung Association's "State of the Air 2010" report released Wednesday.
The organization rates communities on three criteria: ozone, short-term particle spikes and long-term particle averages.
Los Angeles, Fresno and Bakersfield, all in California, had the dubious distinction of being in the top-10 list of all three categories.
The organization found that the worst places to breathe were California cities Los Angeles, Bakersfield and Visalia for ozone pollution; and Bakersfield, Los Angeles and Phoenix, Arizona in terms of average particulates.
Bakersfield and Fresno in California, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, recorded the highest number of particle pollution spikes, which are jumps in the number of particles in the air that can last for many hours or even days.
At least 20 of the most polluted cities had improved from last year's report, the organization said.
Some of those cities were Atlanta, Georgia; Cleveland, Ohio and Detroit, Michigan. But several cities in California had gotten worse.
"Americans can take steps today and every day that will improve air quality immediately and ultimately impact climate change as well," said Charles D. Connor, American Lung Association President and CEO. "Drive less.
Don't burn wood or trash. Use less electricity, and make sure your local school system
requires clean school buses."
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is it tuffy or just plain tuff?
if i become a mechanical engineer can i use the net to insult folks?
so dont bring my wife or bumpersticker? after i grow up?
dude/bro/bra, insults aside you arent making much sense.
Jimmy,
This is my new mantra:
"Don't mess with Texas!"
We are just not man enough in California to understand you guys, I guess.
Surf's up dude!
Ye tuffy tuf,
Your own referenced page states that, and I quote, "...The Golden State continued to produce 22 percent of the milk in the U.S" NOT 50% The page you referenced is data from 2007 by the way too. Can't you read?
And I'm glad you went home. And YES you CAN see Russia from Alaska. If you knew anything about geography you would know that.
Boring? LMAO. I guess it would be if you huddled in your hotel room frightened of the outdoors. Too cold? Not for men.
Weirdos? California OWNS the patent on that. You do have the most fruits and nuts though...kudos. ANd there's an Eskimo working right next to me this second. He's a good friend of mine. Are you afraid of minorities?
Hey Rich in Ventura,
How is C street breaking today...? I Paddled out front of Del Mar, decent swell ...- where did this wind come from? ...blown out by 7 am.... Ventura windy too? Shaping up to be an excellent weekend, I'm headed down to my Mex pad for some waves and cervezas- the boyz from L.A. are coming too, its gunna be wild. Say hi to everyone at Rincon ..
gotta luv it! ahhhh ....sand, sun, tsunami....TSUNAMI? Hey there is another reason to not live in Ca. the plethora of Tsunami's we have coupled with the cornucopia of shark attacks ..it is just not safe, I think it is our duty to warn everyone away...
Gotta go, you stay classy San Diego
Mark
And tuffy? Gov. Schwartzenegger and you make fun of our last governor? Really.
You're not bright enough to know what Palin said and what Tina Fey on SNL said. They DO look a lot alike and they were both on TV so I don't blame you.
U gots Calli smarts........lmao
tuffy, please tell us more about your weekend with the boyz.
then rip on eskimos.
you realize you are insulting and bragging over the internet right? do you feel better doing that?
ummm so this weekend i will be jetting over to my pad in the alps, with a bunch of guys for a wild weekend. should be awesome. yeah bro.
after that i will jet over to my pad in australia, for some marlin fishing along with more wild times with men. then....
do i sound cool yet or like a gay 17 year old?
Jimmy...is he really a mechanical engineer? "nuff said. I've had to fix so MANY errors made by mechanical engineers I could write a book. And we have to fix them time and again. They just don't learn for some reason. I have several good friends that are engineers and I've come to the realization that you can't fix stupid, no matter how well-educated they are.
mechanical engineer.......OMG!!! LOL To a man, they all mistake technical expertise for intelligence.
im still waiting to hear about the benz and salary that makes ours look like pennies.
thats pennies TUFF not peni_.
dude please keep bragging cmon!!!!
Gay 17 year old. TuffyTurf. I'm sure they're synonymous.
weather...how come you havnt bragged or claimed how awesome you are yet today?
why is your name weather anyways?? you should change it to something cooler...like tougherandricherthenyoucauseiamawesome or something along those lines.
Ha, the lung association president calls to "make sure your local school system
requires clean school buses."
I live in Bay Area, CA. Most of us don't even have a choice of using a school bus for transportation since the budget cuts to the public schools. I would have prefer for my child to take a bus, but we do not fall into the very limited number of families who can do so ( you have to attend a school in your attendance area and live farther than 2 miles from school). It'd never cross my mind to just let my child walk home as I do not believe it to be safe so I am forced to drive her to and from (we live approx. 5 miles from school and attend a school of our choice for a special program offered there). I don't want to increase my carbon footprint, yet I have no choice.
hmmmm budget cuts to school systems, high cost of living, and not safe for kids to walk home or ride bikes home after work? id rather have my rights shuffled around in arizona then step one foot into cali.
fauna, you do have a choice, do what my cousins, aunts and uncles did.
move to oregon, that way your child can ride/walk to school without the worry of bay area scum