Emissions Pollution Less in Pacific Coast Metro Areas

Do you want to live where pollution is less than elsewhere ? Then head west to the Pacific Time Zone. Generally, metro areas there produce less of a "carbon footprint" than their counterparts in the Midwest, Southeast, and Northeast. Honolulu ranks best followed surprisingly by the Los Angeles metro area, then Portland-Vancouver; New York; and Boise. Other high ranking metro areas include the San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose metro area; Seattle; San Diego; Las Vegas, Tucson, El Paso, Columbia, SC; Buffalo; and, surprisingly, Chicago. Scoring worst was Lexington, KY; followed by Indianapolis; Cincinnati; Toledo; and Louisville. In the Mountain Time Zone, Denver scored worst followed by Salt Lake City; Albuquerque; Phoenix; and Colorado Springs-Pueblo. Nearby Central Time Zones cities Dallas-Fort Worth; Tulsa; Kansas City, Oklahoma City, and St Louis scored poorly. The study was conducted by the Brookings Institute, an internationally respected research and public policy institute based in Washington, DC.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/us/29pollute.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&ref=us&adxnnlx=1212112925-IuaYpcrgoKFFaFE6TWpj3g
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http://www.brookings.edu/metro/CarbonFootprint.aspx
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