Air Quality Standards, 1998

Percentage of persons living in

counties not meeting U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency air
quality standards
Percentage
State
40.6 United States
39.0
Alabama
64.4
Alaska
59.6
Arizona
13.8
Arkansas
89.3
California
4.9
Colorado
91.3 Connecticut
100.0
Delaware
District
0.0 of Columbia
42.2
Florida
30.5
Georgia
12.0
Hawaii
1.1
Idaho
48.5
Illinois
13.7
Indiana
12.6
Iowa
5.8
Kansas
28.7
Kentucky
33.3
Louisiana
41.3
Maine
67.6
Maryland
37.5Massachusetts
17.3
Michigan
0.0
Minnesota
7.4
Mississippi
37.7
Missouri
14.1
Montana
28.2
Nebraska
66.5
Nevada
2.8
New Hampshire
29.6 New Jersey
9.7 New Mexico
29.3
New York
27.0North Carolina
0.0 North Dakota
37.0
Ohio
42.3
Oklahoma
15.5
Oregon
40.1 Pennsylvania
0.0 Rhode Island
17.5South Carolina
0.0 South Dakota
43.6 Tennessee
50.0
Texas

51.6
Utah
0.0
Vermont
25.4
Virginia
46.2 Washington
7.1 West Virginia
29.0
Wisconsin
0.0
Wyoming
Source: Aerometric Information
Retrieval System, U.S. Environmental
protection Agency.

Percentage
District of Columbia
Minnesota
North Dakota
Rhode Island
South Dakota
Vermont
Wyoming
Idaho
New Hampshire
Colorado
Kansas
West Virginia
Mississippi
New Mexico
Hawaii
Iowa
Indiana
Arkansas
Montana
Oregon
Michigan
South Carolina
Virginia
North Carolina
Nebraska
Kentucky
Wisconsin
New York
New Jersey
Georgia
Louisiana
Ohio
Massachusetts
Missouri
Alabama
Pennsylvania
United States
Maine
Florida
Oklahoma
Tennessee
Washington
Illinois
Texas
Utah
Arizona
Alaska
Nevada
Maryland
California
Connecticut
Delaware

State
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
1.1
2.8
4.9
5.8
7.1
7.4
9.7
12.0
12.6
13.7
13.8
14.1
15.5
17.3
17.5
25.4
27.0
28.2
28.7
29.0
29.3
29.6
30.5
33.3
37.0
37.5
37.7
39.0
40.1
40.6
41.3
42.2
42.3
43.6
46.2
48.5
50.0
51.6
59.6
64.4
66.5
67.6
89.3
91.3
100.0