An annual report card from the American Lung Association gives the air quality in the Washington-Baltimore-Arlington area an “F” grade for smog and says soot also worsened.
, released Wednesday, ranks the D.C. metro area as the 26th most-polluted U.S. city for smog — ground-level ozone air pollution — from 2019 to 2021. That’s worse than last year’s report, which ranked the metro area as the 30th worst in the nation.
“That’s why we are calling on lawmakers at the local, state and federal levels to take action to ensure that everyone has clean air to breathe,” Ms. Casper said. The area ranked 79th worst for year-round particle pollution, slightly improved from 75th worst in last year’s report. The ALA said the D.C. area improved only because other cities did worse, noting that year-round pollution levels in the nation’s capital “were very slightly higher” than last year.
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