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Forbes: Sacramento's one of the least toxic cities in the US
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Listed: Sacramento ranked 2nd least toxic city of 40 major metros
Forbes magazine recently reviewed the nation's 40 largest metro areas and ranked Sacramento the 2nd least toxic city (behind Las Vegas, NV) based upon information from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency including Superfund sites, facilities producing toxic chemicals, the total pounds of certain toxic chemicals released, and air quality readings. Selected rankings are shown below, you can view the full chart here).
Ranked
Selected cities ranked from least toxic to most toxic (as reported by Forbes magazine, November 2009):
- Las Vegas - Paradise, NV Metro Area
- Sacramento - Arden-Arcade - Roseville, CA Metro Area
- Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area
- Austin - Round Rock, TX Metro Area
- Seattle - Tacoma - Bellevue, WA Metro Area
- San Diego - Carlsbad - San Marcos, CA Metro Area
- Virginia Beach - Norfolk - Newport News, VA-NC Metro Area
- San Jose - Sunnyvale - Santa Clara, CA Metro Area
- New York - Northern New Jersey - Long Island, NY-NJ-PA Metro Area
- Phoenix - Mesa - Scottsdale, AZ Metro Area
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posted by Rob McQuade @ 7:34 AM,
