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- absolutelytrue, on 11/03/2009, -2/+22We're so proud of you, Atlanta! You too, Sandy Springs and Marietta.
- macmcraeart, on 11/04/2009, -1/+14I am from atlanta and I recently moved to the LA area. ATL might be most toxic - but the air in LA is ***** brown.
- thegamingguy, on 11/03/2009, -4/+15The Dirty South is right.
- BankFailure, on 11/04/2009, -1/+8Bankhead, College Park, Glenwood represent!
- macmcraeart, on 11/04/2009, -0/+6yeah - we call that place china.
- aychseven, on 11/04/2009, -1/+7wait, what? las vegas one of the cleanest? driving into work every morning from out near black mountain i would see a thick, disgusting brown haze over the city. not to mention the clean up of toxic material they had to do when creating the 95/215 interchange after the pepcon disaster filled the ground with perchlorates. and if you look at sat photos you see all sorts of green and blue pools of toxic material all over the place (here for instance, near my old house: http://tr.im/E4IC all those rectangles are old toxic dumps and the area is fenced off with barbed wire and warning signs). but i guess technically that's all henderson. either way, if that's one of the cleanest, i'm disgusted and scared for people living in the US.
oh god and the constant chlorine leaks from ker mcgee... loved those green clouds and warnings to stay indoors... yeah not at all toxic - tryptonaut, on 11/04/2009, -2/+7There are more toxic cities than Los Angeles? Holy *****. *head asplode*
LA is so polluted you can't see stars at night. The freeways have so much trash it reminds me of Wall-E. Also, the moon looks *orange* every night. - AiR1890, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4I think it is ironic how Las Vegas and Los Angelas are ranked the cleanest air cities, man America must be one filthy place if these two cities are among the cleanest in air quality.
- mikebritton, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4The city proper is very clean and modern. The surrounding suburbs are likewise. There's definitely a traffic quagmire, but again, no comparison to LA.
- angrytortilla, on 11/04/2009, -0/+4WHHHHHHAT?
- arunawayking, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I found this interesting but I have a question because I do not know enough about how they differentiate cities from being green/sustainable/non-toxic. What are the differences between these labels?
For instance, environmental group Sustainlane has Cleveland ranked as 16th greenest city in the nation. (im from cleveland and I am familiar with the work the city has been doing to become green/sustainable. it has been effective. in 2006 cleveland was ranked 28th greenest. up 12 spots! if you dont believe me check it out here! http://www.sustainlane.com/us-city-rankings/overal ... but this forbes article has it listed in the top 10 most toxic cities.
There is obviously a difference on how these groups rank cities, and what is it? And how can a city be green and sustainable while being toxic, as is the situation with cleveland. - ZapRowsdowwer, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Umbriel, these are some Yankees.
- DeadSkinMask, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3I thought Hollywood would have taken this for sure...
- jhsimpson0, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Slightly sad that a city where 2 million pounds of toxic chemicals are released each year is the least toxic metropolitan area in America. Also, how does L.A. have the 7th highest air quality ranking?
- scoottie, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Didnt Futurama predict this?
- TriplePlay2425, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3I live in Atlanta (going to Georgia Tech), but grew up in Marietta :)
I like it there. I'll probably stay in Marietta or Kennesaw. - NexusP, on 11/04/2009, -2/+4NYC has come a long way :)
- TriplePlay2425, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Yeah, I mean it's kind of dirty, but i wouldn't say it's any nastier than other cities. But yeah, traffic is pretty bad.
I don't notice Atlanta being that bad, personally. - Lazydriver, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2This has to be *****. I live in Vegas. It is so ridiculously smoggy in this city, that if you go to one of the mountains that surround us, and look down, you'll see how disgustingly yellow and brown this city is.
- Apocalyptic0n3, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Surprise! Detroit ranks among the worst at something!
There is seriously nothing good about it. I live about 10 miles outside of it, Detroit really is as bad as people paint it to be. Which is really sad. - scoottie, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3LA isnt polluted we just have to many illegals
- fluidfoundation, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1We couldn't have done it without the help of the Chattahoochee.
- mikebritton, on 11/04/2009, -3/+4I have to object. ATL isn't nearly as polluted as LA. This seems like an arbitrary choice.
- rizzo2008, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2I agree I used to visit the city almost monthly and it doesn't seem that bad (alot of traffic which might contribute to air quality but I never noticed anything unusual).
- Appok, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Yet another reason not to live in Detroit. The only reason a person might move to Detroit is if they hate being happy.
- Fastmower, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I should move out Atlanta....this cant be good for my asthma.....Damn that sounded nerdy.
- Apocalyptic0n3, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Only been to Ann Arbor once. Went and toured the campus and MSU's campus one weekend (decided both were about three times bigger than I wanted. lol). I didn't notice anything. Of course, I have pretty much lost my sense of smell so that could be why I didn't.
- dstruktNine, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I knew living in Roseville had its benefits.
- Scottamus, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Damn, Houston is only 37th. If it wasn't for all the chemical companies policing themselves I'm sure we'd be like 38 or something. It's not fair though we have twice as much toxic chemicals released as Atlanta. This thing is rigged.
/s - aptanalogy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I graduated from the University of Michigan, incidentally. Also, I was jokingly referring to weed, lol.
- aptanalogy, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Try moving to Ann Arbor. The air there is filled with *something*, alright ;-)
- swantonamobay, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Who's going to see Mastodon and Dethklok in the ATL Thursday night? IT'S GONNA BE ***** BROOTAL.
- FritoPendejo, on 11/04/2009, -1/+2Someplace has to produce the goods that the people living in the clean tourist spots use.
- reddikilowatt, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Have a Coke and a smile!
- smokewater, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Capital homes represent , East Atlanta where you at?
- matthewf01, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1What up, 770!
- lonesomewolf, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I am an Atlanta native and grew up here and there are a quite a few pollution sources in the area cited in the Forbes article. One major pollution source is now closed and is a brownfield (the GM Doraville Plant). Another is a Ford assembly plant south of the city that was recently closed and yet another toxic site. There is a also a massive coal plant near Marietta that powers the region that was built in the 1950s. Thank God it is being replaced with a natural gas power plant only because our air quality is so bad. Georgia Power would have loved to put another coal plant in its place. Other major pollution sources are a large number of toxic sites where cyanide, mercury, and other heavy metals used to support the car plants. Just a stone throw from my house is a toxic site where GE dumped PCBs right into the ground (PCBs were used as a tough oil to keep transformers cool) and the stream that runs through their property. They keep a small area of the site in use today so they probably don't have to clean up the whole area. I think the laws are written in such a way that if you continue to use the property you don't have to do a full cleanup. Next to them was the cyanide plant. That is a toxic dump. That has been partially cleaned up. Then there is the railroads which did a lot of dumping. Atlanta Station was a huge toxic wasteland left by the steel industry in midtown Atlanta until they cleaned that up by removing 40 feet of top soil. We have a few superfund sites around. The history of the south as been more permissive when it comes to dumping and regulations due to the historically depressed economy and the need for jobs. That is probably another contributing factor. Check out Duck Town, Tennessee and see what the copper smelting industry did to that town. Everything was dead of miles around that place - literally. Or the paper mills down on the Georgia coast. They continue to make those areas toxic.
But, if you leave the metro area most of Georgia is agricultural and is free of toxic dumps until you get close to a power plant, nuclear reactor site, toxic dump site, etc.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/sites/index.htm - bmiller949, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1This article totally fails. Riverside and the Inland Empire acts as a vacuum pump and pulls in all the air pollution from LA. I remember going to college out there from where I grew up in Orange County and the air pollution was much worse than home.
- lonesomewolf, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1Complete, sortable list of cities cited in Forbes article.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/toxic-cities-poll ... - AiR1890, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1We have the illegals clean it up for us.
- AiR1890, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1I saw the description, and I was like Yes! Something Detroit isn't the worst for, then I clicked the link, and read the full description. :( Of course, any list that is the worst cities in America, or the worst states, you will most likely see Detroit or Michigan on that list, always.
- JackOpfor, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1WTF why include northern jersey with NY? Northern jersey has a couple of super fund sites and that weird sweet smell that blows over every so often. Plus Staten Island is closer to jersey and we won it in a yacht race so it really did belong to jersey back in the day.
- Natru3al, on 11/04/2009, -3/+3Yeah all the way to Atlanta. I've met more people in Atlanta from New York than natives. And you brought your dirt with you. :)
- JohnDBandit, on 11/03/2009, -4/+3Go Georgia!
They sure have been popular lately with Forbes. First Forbes ranks, Macon, and Albany Ga. 4th and 7th on their poorest cities list, now Atlanta ranks number one as the most toxic city in America. - DjOverEZ, on 11/04/2009, -5/+3Brian: Amazing, you can barely drive a car and yet you're allowed to fly a blimp?
Peter: Yeah, America's great...except for the South. - DevilToo, on 11/03/2009, -9/+2Ha, awesome. Comment officially dugg.
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