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Posted on May 1, 2007

Citizens of Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit and elsewhere, take a breath. Though your air is polluted, your lungs inflamed and your children at risk, you can rest assured that your city is not the most smog-ridden in the country. That dishonor belongs to Los Angeles, which has the worst air quality in the nation, according to the American Lung Association.


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LOS ANGELES—Los Angeles can continue being the butt of smog jokes now that it has once again topped the American Lung Association’s bad-air list of most-polluted cities in America.

The association found that the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Riverside metropolitan area had the worst air based on 2003 through 2005 figures.

The Pittsburgh area was ranked as the nation’s second-most-polluted metropolitan area, followed by Bakersfield, Calif., Birmingham, Ala., Detroit and Cleveland. Visalia, Calif., Cincinnati, Indianapolis and St. Louis rounded out the top 10.

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By Godofredo Arauzo, January 30, 2008 at 8:47 am Link to this comment
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POLLUTION TO THE OROYA CITY

The years 2006 and 2007 the Blacksmith Institute have accomplished a research about the cities more contaminated to the world and arrived to the conclusion that the Oroya City was between the 10 cities more polluted of the world: Blacksmith Institute have be benevolent; according to my researchs to many years that I am publishing, the Oroya is the more polluted to Peru, Latin America and of the world and every day is being more polluted: lead in blood in children in the Ancient Oroya in average 53.7 ug/dl ( DIGESA 1999); pregnancies women 39.49 ig/dl ( UNES 2000), new borns children 19.06 ug/dl, puerperal 319 ug/100 grams/placenta ( Castro 2003) and workers 50 ig/dl ( Doe Run 2003). Top lead in blood accepted 10 ug/dl; present day is 0 ug/dl ( Pediatric of Academy to USA)
When the Oroya city was in hands to the CentroMin eliminated only by the upper chimney to 167.500 meters, in average by day in tons: sulfur dioxide 1000, lead 2500, arsenic 2500, cadmium, particulate matter 50 and so on, more 24,000 to toxis gas product to the incomplete combustion of the coal, without count it is eliminated by industrial incinerator y by the 97 smalls chimneys, it is estimated 15,000 (PAMA . El Complejo Metalúrgico de la Oroya, 1996); they add 45,000 tons by day,   
 
Doe Run envoy every three months the concentrations of the heavy metals to the Ministry to the Energy and Mines and with the sames datums Ceverstav have demostrated the pollution was increased; for example the sulfur dioxide it have increased in near to 300 %, by increment to the production (Cederstav. La Oroya no Espera 2002) 

The American Assotiation to the Environment say that the environmental quality to the Oroya it is serius deteriorated since that Doe Run was owner and the same enterprise
declared that the concentrations of the heavy metals gas it is ncreased in the air: lead 1160 %, cadmium 1990 % and arsenic 6006 % (Portugal, et al. Los Humos de Doe Run 2003)

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By Tom Doff, May 1, 2007 at 1:27 pm Link to this comment
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If they measured ‘pollution’ by the amount of flakey, dessicated bullsh*t in the air, DC would be Number 1.

Even beating out Houston, which used to be the Bull Capitol of the world.

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By mutterhals, May 1, 2007 at 11:33 am Link to this comment
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Conversely, Pittsburgh was just named most livable city. I guess respiratory systems are overrated.

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By QuyTran, May 1, 2007 at 10:59 am Link to this comment

The most polluted city in this planet is DC, where the Whorehouse locates with Bush/Cheney and their servants living !

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By dale Headley, May 1, 2007 at 10:10 am Link to this comment
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I lived in Los Angeles 60 years ago.  THAT was pollution!!

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By Carter West, May 1, 2007 at 8:16 am Link to this comment
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