Cities With the Worst Air Quality in the U.S.
Measuring by the amount of fine particles in a city’s air over the course of a year, most of the cities with the worst air pollution in the U.S. were in the western U.S., where wildfire smoke can impact air quality. Cities in California made up six of the 10 cities with the worst air quality, including the three worst. Continue reading
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