I just Gotta Tell Ya
• One in 10 people in the US live in areas with unhealthy levels of all three types of pollution: ozone, short-term and year-round particle pollution.
• Two in five people in the US live in counties that have unhealthy levels of either ozone or particle pollution.
• Nearly one-third of the US population lives in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone.
• Over one quarter of the people in the US live in an area with unhealthy short-term levels of particle pollution.
• One in six people in the US live in an area with unhealthy year-round levels of particle pollution.
Top 10 most polluted US cities
(By short-term particle pollution)
1) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2) Los Angeles, California
3) Fresno/Madera, California
4) Bakersfield, California
5) Birmingham, Alabama
6) Logan, Utah
7) Salt Lake City, Utah
8) Sacramento, California
9) Detroit, Michigan
10) Baltimore, Maryland / Washington, D.C.
Top 10 most polluted US cities
(By year-round particle pollution)
1) Los Angeles, California
2) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
3) Bakersfield, California
4) Birmingham, Alabama
5) Visalia/Porterville, California
6) Atlanta, Georgia
7) Cincinnati, Ohio
8) Fresno/Madera, California
9) Hanford/Corcoran, California
10) Detroit, Michigan
Top 10 most polluted US cities
(By ozone)
1) Los Angeles, California
2) Bakersfield, California
3) Visalia/Porterville, California
4) Houston, Texas
5) Fresno/Madera, California
6) Sacramento, California
7) Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas
8) New York City/Newark, New Jersey
9) Baltimore, Maryland./Washington, DC
10) Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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