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The NC Triangle and Charlotte don't have a lot of industrial brownfields or superfund sites, but they do have air quality issues, likely a side effect of sprawl.
That's only concerning air quality. If you look at the national data for air quality, other major cities do have just as bad air quality, it's just the valley bowl of CA that maintains most of it because of the geography. I know that won't tarnish your vendetta against CA though.
So the black grime that settles out of the air in Philly isn't a particulate that qualifies as pollution? Ok......As far as I know there aren't a lot of places where that occurs so how is it not listed? Typical "study".
Ptiisburgh, All the pollution down the Ohio River Vallet gets blown up the valley into Pitt. due to the easr west orentation of the valley. And Once it reaches Pittsburgh it gets stuck because then the valley splits and one goes north the other south.
Philadelphia could be considered the capital of toxicity, since the city and its environs ranked No. 1 on our 2011 Most Toxic Cities list. One big reason: The sprawling Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), including parts of four states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and one county in Maryland), is pocked with more than 50 Superfund sites---areas no longer in use that contain hazardous waste.
While the East Coast metro, with its old industrial sites, grabbed the top spot, California metropolitan areas claimed four of the 10 spots on our Most Toxic list, primarily due to the chronic air quality problem known as smog.
I can't think of many cities in the US that seemed too polluted to me. Chennai India was one of the worst I've ever been to (terrible air quality, trash in the ocean and green spaces, contaminated vile water, etc), but that's common in a lot of poorer, over-populated countries. Bakersfield, CA seemed pretty rough to me as far as US cities go. Tough to breathe.
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