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The metro area was No. 4 on the list of the places with the worst ozone pollution with an annual average 52.2 days of high ozone days. ... What are the top 10 worst cities for particle pollution?
The American Lung Association’s State of the Air report for 2024 ranked U.S. cities and graded counties based on ozone and particle pollution during 2020, 2021 and 2022, according to its website.
Sacramento has some of the worst air quality in the United States, according to the American Lung Association. Sacramento is among the top 10 most polluted cities in the nation in terms of ozone ...
This list contains the top 500 cities by PM2.5 annual mean concentration measurement as documented by the World Health Organization covering the period from 2008 to 2017. The 2018 version of the WHO database contains results of ambient (outdoor) air pollution monitoring from almost 2700 towns and cities in 91 countries.
Both ozone and particle pollution are dangerous to human health. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) engaged a panel of expert scientists, the Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee, to help them assess the evidence. The EPA released their most recent review of the current research on health threat of ozone and particle pollution. [58]
The state of air pollution has been improving in Los Angeles, although it remains the city with the worst ozone pollution. [11] With a population of roughly over 10 million, the Los Angeles area is a large basin with the Pacific Ocean to the west, and several mountain ranges with 11,000-foot peaks (3,400 m) to the east and south, Los Angeles is ...
The Milwaukee metro area ranked 26th worst in the nation for ozone pollution, according to the report. Rankings were based on the area's worst county's average number of unhealthy air quality days.
Environmental issues in New York City are affected by the city's size, density, abundant public transportation infrastructure, and location at the mouth of the Hudson River. New York's population density has environmental pros and cons. It facilitates the highest mass transit use in the United States, but also concentrates pollution.