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America’s Most Toxic Cities List Released With Surprising Results
Source: Green Biz.com,ENN, Date: , 2009
Las Vegas has far from a clean reputation, but in Forbes' list of America's Most Toxic Cities, Las Vegas is named the least toxic of 40 major metropolitan areas.Forbes
ranked the cities based on the number of Superfund sites in the
principal city, number of facilities that release toxic chemicals,
amount of toxic chemicals released in the area and air quality ranking.Following Las Vegas as the top 10 least toxic cities are Sacramento, Riverside, Austin, Seattle, San Diego, Virginia Beach, San Jose, New York and Phoenix. Crowded
urban areas are often thought of as the most polluted, but the latter
isn't always caused by the former. While the Atlanta metro area takes
top honors for toxicity, don't blame the city alone. The Atlanta metro
includes the cities of Sandy Springs and Marietta, the sites of
chemical plants, metal coaters and concrete factories. The cities have
toxic-release levels equal at or higher than those Atlanta, in spite of
populations that are 15% and 13% the size of Atlanta's, respectively. The
title of most toxic city goes to Atlanta.
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