U.S.: Protip: If you live in California, don’t breathe the air or something
- 154M number of Americans who live in areas of the country where the air is sometimes dangerous to breathe
- 17M number of Americans that live in areas with three different types of dangerous pollution source
- » California cities the worst: According to the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2011” report, released last week, eight of the ten worst metropolitan areas for pollution are based in California (though one county crosses the Nevada border), with Los Angeles being the worst and Sacramento and San Diego also making the list. Uh, yikes.