Posted on 04/30/2014 10:13:17 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hmmmm, seems like this CA place (whatever that is...I believe it used to be a place that was envied) is really polluted.
What those folks need to do is to elect lots of liberal dim-bulb-crats who will most certainly clean things up, make businesses better, and give all a qualilty education.
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Interesting to note no Texas cities on the list.
The Libs would have us believe that a state that is a big energy producer and very business friendly would be the most polluted.
Looks like the whole Central Valley in California is represented on that list.
Just saw El Paso, but is said NM after it....but still nothing compared to all of the CA cities on the list.
They blame the large cities along the coast that provides the smog to central valley,, or something like that...
RE: Looks like the whole Central Valley in California is represented on that list.
The place is a dustbowl. No water provided for it to “save” some small fish...
Blaming the Homer City power plant for Pittsburgh's relatively mild air pollution is idiotic as well since Homer City is mostly to the east and north whereas the worst pollution cited is mostly to the west. FWIW, our prevailing winds are mostly from the west.
Surprising that the top 5 are in California. I would have thought the fresh ocean air would have given California cities a natural advantage.
Surprising the top 5 are in California. Especially with the most “progressive” anti pollution laws. M
Apparently they don’t work.
“Surprising that the top 5 are in California. I would have thought the fresh ocean air would have given California cities a natural advantage.”
Mountain range locking in the pollution? Check out a map.
No mention of the 800 lb gorilla: Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso. Hundreds of maquiladoras, with little environmental regulation.
My bad...Juarez was mentioned, but it’s not 25 miles from EL Paso, it’s right across the damn border.
The tractors stir up a LOT of dust, but it's generally not toxic.
The valley also has it's fair share of plain old smog.
Only the southern half.
There's another 300 miles of it north of Modesto that is not on the list.
Pittsburgh is a tiny fraction of how polluted it used to be.
In the 40’s it was dark here at noontime.
In the 70’s you could dust your house with a magnet.
Game fish have actually returned to the rivers.
There are mountains to the east of the big cities. The air gets trapped by those mountains, and the cool ocean air tends to keep the warmer air over the land from heading out to sea. So it just sits there, even if it circulates around within its confines. A Santa Ana wind comes a few times a year, and that pushes the bad air out to sea (you can even see the dusty dirty air to the west over the ocean sometimes).
When I moved here over 25 years ago, it was a lot worse. Cleaner cars and the loss of industry have undoubtedly helped a lot, but even without humans, it would be dusty in the atmosphere.
RE: Pittsburgh is a tiny fraction of how polluted it used to be.
I gather they don’t miss the lost steel jobs around those parts...
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