Top 25 Towns for Clean Air, Dirty Air

Web MD ^ | April 27, 2006 | Miranda Hitti

[Jeff F]

Wait -- during the 2002 election Algore and the media were all telling us that Bush's Houston is the most polluted city imaginable. But Houston doesn't even appear in the AMA's particulate list while this forth largest city is only ranked number six on the ozone list.

Oh so environmentally correct California picks up the slots 1-3 on the particulates list and 1-5 on the ozone list. Could the reporting back in 2000 possibly have been politicized?

See also: http://lungaction.org/reports/sota06_cities.html

[Vision]

Makes sense to me. Best air is west, worst is east

[nuconvert]

umm...the worst air is in LA

[I'm ALL Right!]

Maybe if all the environmentalists in CA would stop driving cars and taking busses, using hairspray and electricity...fire up their solar ovens...

...never going to happen.

[Vision]

That's the mountains. Look at the bigger picture

[DB]

It is actually pretty simple.

California has 10% of the nations population.

With that comes all their cars.

I live in #25 for clean air, also in California.

[nuconvert]

Lol. What I see is Calif. holding 5 of the top 7 places.

[technomage]

That's the mountains. Look at the bigger picture

I would, but all that smog is limiting my view.

[My Favorite Headache]

22. Port St. Lucie-Fort Pierce, Fla.

This is total B.S....2 of the hugest garbage dumps are located off I-95 in these cities and it smells to high hell for miles...the haze off the dumps is unreal. Plus there are truck stops all over the place. Ft.Pierce is a toilet.

[USNBandit]

Albany-Corvallis-Lebanon, Ore.

I remember a really smelly industrial plant on I-5 in Albany. Yuck.

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1510878/posts
What's That Smell?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1588517/posts
NYC: Manhattan Gas Odor Came from NJ

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1601549/posts
New Jersey in Top 5 States When it Comes to Bad Air

[Plutarch]

4. Visalia-Porterville, Calif. 5. Fresno-Madera, Calif.

Its those damn cows.

[justshutupandtakeit]

Al is busy warning us of the threat from the ManBearPig now to worry about air.

[BlazingArizona]

Lol. What I see is Calif. holding 5 of the top 7 places.

And many of the places in CA cited are small farm towns with no polluting industry. Porterville? Corcoran? Madera? Merced?

[Laz711]

2. Santa Fe-Espanola, N.M,7. Farmington, N.M, 9. Albuquerque, N.M

I don't really understand why Farmington is on there...The majority of the NM population is in Albq-Santa Fe area, with Farmington and Las Cruces being the next biggest population areas of the state. With only a few hundred thousand people in Farmington, isn't it a bit small to be on the list at all? Oh well, at least they have proven where the cleaner air is...where the people aren't.

[wizr]

me too.

[JoeSixPack1]

...2 of the hugest garbage dumps are located off I-95...
... Plus there are truck stops all over the place.
... Ft.Pierce is a toilet.

I've been motorcycling around this town for 6 years now and never smelled the dump on I-95, seen 1 full service truck stop in ft. Pierce, the Flying j. It's just north of the dump, also on I-95. And ft. Pierce may be severly depressed but far from a toilet once you leave I-95.

Seems the best thing for you to do is continue your drive-by journalism on I-95. Or better yet, take Rt 27. You won't be so distracted.

Oh and BTW, the dump funnels it's methane to the power plant for extra fuel, imagine that.

[My Favorite Headache]

Sorry Joe...I have lived in Florida since I was born with the exception of 4-5 yrs up north. I am a native...those cities do not belong on the list. You can totally smell the dumps in the area...you literally gag as you drive for a good 10 mins past them.

[JoeSixPack1]

That's exactly where we want them. On I-95 to irritate guys like you passing by. :-)

I've been in Florida for 33 years. Lived at various tuimes in Homestead, Miami, Hollywood, Liquirdale, Kissimmee, Narcoosee, Daytona and now PSL.

I couldn't give a crap for this town, and have my current houme for sale, but your description is an I-95 drive-by.

You didn't mention the deadfish smell at low tide on Indian River Drive that makes the dump smell like a rose garden, but that's far from I-95.

[thackney]

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