America's Most Toxic Cities
Forbes has just come out with a list of the most toxic cities in the country, based on the amount of pollution per urban area. Here are the top ten:
1. Atlanta
2. Detroit
3. Chicago
4. Houston
5. Philadelphia
6. Cleveland
7. Los Angeles
8. Jacksonville
9. Baltimore
10. Portland
As for the least toxic, here they are:
1. Las Vegas
2. Sacramento
3. Riverside
4. Austin
5. Seattle
6. San Diego
7. Virginia Beach
8. San Jose
9. New York
10. Phoenix
You might be surprised to see New York on this list, but the city's extensive public transportation system translates into less air pollution.
--Aileen Torres
Comments
Which Portland?
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Flag ThisIt's interesting that one of the components of foul air is fluoride emissions. Yet almost all of these cities voluntarily add unnecessary and health-robbing fluoride chemicals into the water supply that are derived from industry trapping their illegal fluoride air emissions. Silicofluorides, scraped from the smokestacks of phosphate fertilizer companies, are allowed to contain trace amounts of lead, arsenic, mercury and other toxins. This is what is trucked as hazardous material through the highways and byways of America and dumped without purification into the water supply and called fluoridation, which is the government's failed effort to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers. More info: http://www.FluorideAction.Net Fluoride is one toxin you can remove from your environment and body if you all tell your legislators to stop adding it into your drinking water, your bodies and your environment. Otherwise why should they bother?
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