LOL. Of course New Jersey doesn’t make the list
That’s because the bad part of New Jersey is only 13 miles long but unfortunately a major US interstate runs right through the middle. Over 20% of NJ is a large pine forest and most of the state is suburban or rural, plus other than the refineries on the turnpike the state has been de industrialized.
New Jersey barely missed being in the “top” ten. #38 on the list, #50 being the worst.
That must be true. It's on their license plates.
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