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Six California spots are among the top 10 most polluted metropolitan areas in the United States, according to the American Lung Association’s 2024 State of the Air report.. Each year, the ...
In 2024, the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside area ranked the 1st most ozone-polluted city, the 6th most polluted city by annual particle pollution, and the 11th most polluted city by 24-hour particle pollution. [3] Both ozone and particle pollution are dangerous to human health.
A view of Los Angeles covered in smog. Pollution in California relates to the degree of pollution in the air, water, and land of the U.S. state of California.Pollution is defined as the addition of any substance (solid, liquid, or gas) or any form of energy (such as heat, sound, or radioactivity) to the environment at a faster rate than it can be dispersed, diluted, decomposed, recycled, or ...
What are the most polluted cities in California?
This is a list of Superfund sites in California designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up ...
Low-income and communities of color are the most affected. Despite some improvements to local air quality, California cities remain among the nation’s most polluted, Ruacho said.
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
In this article we take a look at the 30 most polluted cities in the United States. Click to skip ahead and jump to the 10 most polluted cities in the U.S. When comparing cities or regions on ...