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No suprise to see mostly car-centric, industrial areas with little air circulation to make the top of the list.
I am curious to know, though, what the meaning behind the "Short-term partical pollution" list is. Does it have anything to do with pollen or grass seed pollution perhaps? I'm curious because I see my city, Eugene, on that list but I bet it wouldn't even come close on the other lists. There's a lot of other curious places on that one, that I wouldn't suspect to see on any other list. What's it all about?
I lived in Fresno for 38 years. The air quality was atrocious! The sky got more gray with each passing year to where you couldn't even see the foothills through the smog. Then the wildfires would start and kids couldn't even play outside for recess and people were encouraged to stay indoors. It was horrible.
We moved to Wyoming where the sky is actually blue, where we can breathe again. There's hardly anyone living here so it's no surprise the air is cleaner. I'm so glad we left Fresno.
I lived in Fresno for 38 years. The air quality was atrocious! The sky got more gray with each passing year to where you couldn't even see the foothills through the smog. Then the wildfires would start and kids couldn't even play outside for recess and people were encouraged to stay indoors. It was horrible.
We moved to Wyoming where the sky is actually blue, where we can breathe again. There's hardly anyone living here so it's no surprise the air is cleaner. I'm so glad we left Fresno.
Glad you're happy in WYO, but things have changed for the better with regards to Fresno's air and will keep improving(state gov attacking polluters is making a difference)
Foothills are easy to spot right now and will be for most of the Summer. I too remember struggling to see them in years past.
Fresno air quality for today is moderate to good. It was good all of yesterday.
For all the accusations against the coal industry I don't see any cities in West Virginia or Kentucky on the list. Surprised how many smaller cities in California made all these lists. A lot of major cities like Atlanta, New Orleans and Charlotte apparently have very good air quality.
Coal fired power plants have environmental controls, sulfur dioxide scrubbers, etc.
I was surpised Chattanooga showed up on at least one of those cleanest city lists. It had a bad pollution problem back in the day partly due to the geography of the area.
I've noticed how Chicago has dropped and now fallen off these lists, I'm assuming closing down the coal power plants in the city helped a lot, and just in general as its shed its industry over the past few decades.
Thats the bad thing about some California regions. Summer (dry season) brings few storms or major wind to blow the dirty air away. So you'll get 3-5 months of very polluted air accumulating day after day. Sucks for places like San Bern/Riverside which get all of LA/OC county's dirty air blown in.
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