Top Ten Most Polluted Cities

[Tim McG]

The San Joaquin Valley has not one, not two but FOUR cities on the top ten list!

Gotta love those conservative politics which place industry and taxes on businesses above lung health. Woo-hoo!

[hack, wheeze]

Air Pollution City

Edited April 27, 2012 by GoodSpeak

[BillF]

The San Joaquin Valley has not one, not two but FOUR cities on the top ten list!

Gotta love those conservative politics which place industry and taxes on businesses above lung health. Woo-hoo!

[hack, wheeze]

Air Pollution City

Could be worse!

http://www.mibazaar.com/pollutedcities.html

Edited April 27, 2012 by BillF

[Tim McG]

The San Joaquin Valley has not one, not two but FOUR cities on the top ten list!

Gotta love those conservative politics which place industry and taxes on businesses above lung health. Woo-hoo!

[hack, wheeze]

Air Pollution City

Could be worse!

http://www.mibazaar.com/pollutedcities.html

True.

The bad news is this isn't a so-called "Third World" country,

We have the technology to control such pollution.

[RDK]

The scary thing is that L.A. is a lot better than it was 20-30 years ago!

[BeBop]

Is this one of those "horse shoes and hand grenades" things? I lived in Clovis, but not Fresno; Wasco, but never Hanford or Bakersfield; Porterville and Tulare, not Visalia; Encino not Los Angeles; Fountain Hills, AZ, not Phoenix; I wasn't in Louisville all that long; Kiev, but Chernobyl was off-limits by the time I got there; probably no closer than 100km from Kabwe; Sukinda looks kinda close to Calcutta, but...; Dzerzhinsk surely isn't as close to Moskva as it appears.

Yep, I'm feeling like a lucky boy for having dodged all those bullets.

[Tim McG]

The scary thing is that L.A. is a lot better than it was 20-30 years ago!

True dat.

I lived in the LA/OC area back then. We had clean air...now it's worse than LA!

Grrrrr

[Tim McG]

Is this one of those "horse shoes and hand grenades" things? I lived in Clovis, but not Fresno; Wasco, but never Hanford or Bakersfield; Porterville and Tulare, not Visalia; Encino not Los Angeles; Fountain Hills, AZ, not Phoenix; I wasn't in Louisville all that long; Kiev, but Chernobyl was off-limits by the time I got there; probably no closer than 100km from Kabwe; Sukinda looks kinda close to Calcutta, but...; Dzerzhinsk surely isn't as close to Moskva as it appears.

Yep, I'm feeling like a lucky boy for having dodged all those bullets.

If you read the article the yutz from the San Joaquin Valley Air Quality Board wants us to believe fireplaces and agriculture cause the pollution. Sure. I really don't know of anyone who lights up the fireplace in August.

The real cause is cars and diesel trucks/trains. Interstate 5 and Highway 99 and the railroads of Santa Fe-Burlington Northern and Union Pacific all run the length of the Valley. The trucks from Mexico don't have to follow any pollution standards.

Add to that the coal-fired co-generation power planets and Ag waste co-gen plants and you have soot galore. Then, and how this got done is a testament to the weak-kneed and pro-business Air Quality Board, we have a toxic waste incinerator belching metric tons of pollution into the air.

Lastly, it doesn't help that the Bay Area oil refineries in the Martinez Straights are allowed to pollute with impunity. All that pollution gets carried into the Valley by the winds, as well.

Basically, this Jaime Holt is full of bought-and-paid-for pro-business cow manure and its subsequent methane gas pollution.

Don't even get me started on the mega-daries in Tulare-Kings Counties.

Edited April 28, 2012 by GoodSpeak