Planet Hazard Outs USA's Most Polluted
- Feb 11, 2009 2:51 AM EST
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Gone are the days when data on carbon emissions for locations around the world (or, considering what's relevant to the topic, around the United States) are merely figures on paper and gobbledygook the masses can't even begin to comprehend. There's now a web site called Planet Hazard that offers people pollution data in a format that could easily be understood.
Unfortunately for some places, they're now easily identified top polluters. And no, the web site does not take data from questionable sources at all; in fact, the figures come straight from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. What the Planet Hazard does is identify the most polluted in the country and mark them with big black pointers in an incorporated Google Map. There are reportedly 86,320 locations that can be classified as polluted, but filtering out results to include only the top ten could give you a bird's-eye view representation of EPA's emissions data.