Southern California Deemed Most Polluted

[jpak]

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/tech/2007/may/01/050106745.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles can continue being the butt of smog jokes now that it has once again topped the American Lung Association's bad air list of most polluted cities in America.

The association found that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside metropolitan area had the worst air based on 2003 through 2005 figures.

The Pittsburgh area was ranked as the nation's second most polluted metropolitan area followed by Bakersfield, Calif., Birmingham, Ala., Detroit and Cleveland. Visalia, Calif., Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louis rounded out the top 10.

The news wasn't all bad for Los Angeles. Despite the dubious distinction, the number of days residents breathed the nation's worst ozone levels was fewer than in previous years.

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[Rydz777]

1. Location, location, location

Los Angeles was not the ideal place to locate a population center of that size. Air and water will remain major problems.

[NNadir]

2. Don't worry about it.

Governor Hydrogen Hummer is racing to the scene armed with a brazillion solar roofs, some electrolyzers and hydrogen hummers for all.

It shouldn't be a problem next month.

[depakid]

3. The worst air I've ever breathed was in Houston

You wouldn't think anything could top Mexico City, but this stuff literally made lungs burn overnight. Not to mention that the area between south and east of there was without question the ugliest landscape I've ever see anywhere....

[NNadir]

4. I think they're talking LA.

The worst I ever personally experienced was Mexico City. I lived a long time in LA, and bicycled quite a bit there, but I don't think I could have biked one mile in Mexico City without getting lung cancer.

The peasant/farmers in the mountains do slash and burn agriculture I was told. I felt as if I were in a forest fire driving from Mexico City to Cuernevaca.

[hunter]

5. Are they even taking accurate records in Texas anymore?

Or do they operate the way the Bush administration does... if you simply don't collect the statistics, nobody can hold them against you.