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I four wheel from the Utah border to the California border across the state of Nevada every year. This takes 7 to 10 days travel moving all day. The claim that it is the 2nd most polluted state is absolutely, and totally ludicrous. There are big mines here and there, and our air quality gets totally destroyed by California wildfires every year, and solar farms are creeping in covering vast stretches of previously undisturbed wilderness, but other than Alaska this is the only state you can go days without seeing a human being. I have been to every state except North Dakota, and claiming Nevada is #2 is absolutely ludicrous
And yes, the list is bullshit. They expect us to believe that California's cities can have some of the dirtiest air in the country, but the state can be one of the least polluted. The list probably just ranks the states with the tightest regulations the highest.
Interesting: Even though California ranks sixth among the least polluted states, many of its cities rank among America’s most polluted. Research from the American Lung Association ranked cities by ozone pollution, year-round particle pollution, and short-term particle pollution. California areas that ranked in the ALA’s top 10 most polluted cities in all three pollution categories include Los Angeles-Long Beach, Bakersfield, Fresno-Madera-Hanford, and Sacramento-Roseville.
Mercury contamination from 19th century mining, arsenic in a goodly fraction of the state's well water, and there's that small matter of Nevada being the host to some 974 nuclear explosions, 974 that they'll admit to.
Environmentalists and greenies should stay in that pristine state to the left of us...
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I live in Western Nevada. The only pollution here is the smoke from the annual late summer fires and the cattle.