Portland Ranks 10th Most Toxic City by Forbes
Submitted by jt on Thu, 11/05/2009 - 17:14.
The ranking by Forbes was for the Portland-Vancouver-Beaverton metro area. The ranking was derived by counting the amount of superfund sites in the city, the amount of facilities releasing toxic chemicals, pounds of toxic chemicals released, and by the air quality ranking.
If Portland and the rest of Oregon would like to continue to be the beacon for the environmental movement, then we need to get serious about cleaning up the toxic facilities in our state.
According to the list, Atlanta Georgia is the most toxic city and Las Vegas, Nevada is the cleanest....go figure.
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