American Lung Association releases State of the Air report

The American Lung Association releases its State of the Air report.

Every year, the American Lung Association releases a State of the Air report, outlining the most offending U.S. cities with regard to air pollution. Texas and California are consistently leading offenders, a reality that didn’t change this year as the top eight cities came from one of the two states.

What is often an interesting element of the report is not simply what cities have high levels of air pollution, but how differently that pollution looks from city-to-city, with respect to the sources, and the varying outcomes heaped upon each town’s residents. Here are two samples from the report:

El Paso-Las Cruces, Texas and N.M.: Out of a million residents, nearly 55,000 have asthma while the city maintains a year-round particle pollution rank of 8th worst in the country. Not only has this area suffered additional pollution due to its own growing population which comes with increased commercial and passenger vehicles, but it also sits only 25 miles away from Ciudad Juarez, one of Mexico’s largest cities which is experiencing its own similar boom in inhabitants and pollution.

Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, Penn., Ohio and W.Va: Ranking 6th worst with respect to its year-round pollution and 21st worst in terms of the amount of ozone in its atmosphere, this area also has over 200,000 residents suffering from asthma. The Pittsburgh metro area is no stranger to pollution and unfavorable reports, but this year has revealed some of its most favorable rankings. The Homer City power plant, operating on coal, and U.S. Steel facilities are often blamed for the pollutants, but natural gas drilling has also earned more ire in recent years.

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