Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Top 10 U.S. Polluted Cities

Thank God I live in Texas. My fair locale didn't make it into this list of the top 10 polluted cities in the U.S.

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.

I think the air is bad here, particularly during the summer. I can't imagine what it must be like in L.A.