Ohio tops, Oregon escapes 20 most-toxic list

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Ohio tops the list of the 20 states with the most power-related air pollution.

Ohio tops the list of the 20 states with the most power-related air pollution.

States across the country were checking their ranking Wednesday when the Natural Resources Defense Council released its "Toxic 20" list. The study used data in the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory.

The report — Toxic Power: How Power Plants Contaminate Our Air and States — focuses on data from coal- and oil-fired power plants, which the study says contributes to nearly half of all air pollution from industrial sources.

Here's the Toxic 20:

  1. Ohio
  2. Pennsylvania
  3. Florida
  4. Kentucky
  5. Maryland
  6. Indiana
  7. Michigan
  8. West Virginia
  9. Georgia
  10. North Carolina
  11. South Carolina
  12. Alabama
  13. Texas
  14. Virginia
  15. Tennessee
  16. Missouri
  17. Illinois
  18. Wisconsin
  19. New Hampshire
  20. Iowa


From the Charlotte Business Journal and the Tampa Bay Business Journal.

Tags: Air quality


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