Report: Most Americans in areas with unhealthy air

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Smog covers downtown Los Angeles, on Tuesday April 28, 2009. Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with dangerously high pollution levels despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws tackling air quality, according to a new study on air pollution. Los Angeles, Long Beach and Riverside remained the metropolitan area with the highest levels of ozone pollution as they have with every one of the last 10 reports.

Sixty percent of Americans live in areas with unhealthy air pollution levels, despite a growing green movement and more stringent laws aimed at improving air quality, the American Lung Association said in a report released Wednesday.

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