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Forbes: Atlanta most toxic city in U.S.

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

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Relentless list-generating machine Forbes.com now ranks Atlanta the most toxic city in the U.S. because our “combination of air pollution, contaminated land and atmospheric chemicals.”

Not good.

But not all bad.

It’s our best excuse yet to permanently discard our lousy, Brand Atlanta theme song “ATL” and replace it something catchier and more appropriate.

Meet Atlanta’s toxic-chemical releasin’ facilities

Wednesday, September 10th, 2008

They’re all right here.

The Environmental Protection Agency has unveiled its online database of facilities that release toxic chemicals into the air and water. (Full database is available here.) Search it by zip, city, county or state.

(Thanks to Stacy Shelton, enviro-journalist extraordinaire at the AJC)