Not sure that having the luck to be geographically located in a region of abundant hydro resources equates to "excelling", especially when the power company has fought tooth and nail against solar and wind.

Especially when, despite--or because of--having cheap hydroelectric power, they use about twice as much, per capita, as the national average.

Yeah, got to agree. I have seen people blown LITERALLY on their butts while filling their cars with gasoline.

Wyoming comes to
Mind reading that lol.

My grandpappy always used to say that not much snow falls in Wyoming, but a lot blows through there.

It then lands here in Nebraska

I remember a few years ago, at a rest stop on I-80, reading how the wind was necessary for the antelope to survive the winter. It blew enough of the snow away so that they could still feed...

<sigh> Wyoming. Very beautiful, including the sagebrush, but it always seems as if you are driving uphill, with a headwind. Even when you aren't.

Texas should also get the award for the Goodest Hair

We (nebraska) has most organic livestock.
I was not aware of that.

I may be mistaken, but aren't all livestock organic?

Look at New England on that bottom map. Every New England state is the highest of some form of cancer.

????

I'd say there was a connection.

It's just an environmental factor.

Most organic vegetable plots also having highest rate of esophageal cancer - Main.
OTOH, Most organic hogs, most hog waste, Iowa - perfect.

I also liked Missouri "Most Ozarks".

Ever the optimist.

I do transcription for two gastro practices, so that may come in handy somehow...

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They MAKE the pollutants...we BREATH them and DIE from them. They are also KILLING our beautiful Maple trees. Bummer!

This chart proves those smoke stacks are spewing carcinogens. Outrageous!

Texas has highest Co2 emissions AND highest wind power!

i guess i will binge drink and eat corn.

we have a mosanto auditorium in the Kit Bond building at MU

which seems to be opposite of all the DUI reports in the newspaper.

I found out that there is NO state inter-agency reporting of DUIs..the city cop who pulls you over has no way to know
you got a DUI on the Interstate or county roads previously.

As being downwind from all the midwest coal burning power plants and industry I've read New England has enough mercury in the air to lower a kid's IQ 3-5 pt, and the acid rain is killing amphibians. Much as I've read within 5 miles of O'Hare Airport cancer/asthma/leukemia are 60% higher than the Chicago average, and even 20 miles downwind 30% higher. Maybe the most nuke power / toxic waste accidents in IL is partly related to cancer/autism downwind? Only 43 highly contaminated waterways around the great lakes, even the EPA warns: don't eat the fish.

"Don't eat the fish" indeed.

Largest delta and fastest declining wetlands are in opposition.

Is that the best they can say for Indiana?

I'm not from Indiana, I just noticed that and thought it was odd.

Does Johnny Appleseed's burial place also count as trash?

thanks for the fire ants.

Just kidding.

For that matter, Washington state seems to be getting off pretty easy too

Many towns in Alaska only accessible by air.

If they were going to talk about bad stuff, they'd talk about our suicide rate or that we're number one in sexual assaults.

comes from the TN Legislature Republicans mouths!

Wisconsin: Highest rate of binge drinking...Gov. Scott Walker, Mahatma Gandhi would have wanted to kick his ass.
Illinois: Most Toxic Waste accidents...Worked in Rockford, Rochelle. Know people who work in Freeport and used to work in Rock Island. Calling them "accidents" is misleading. Like accidentally putting on that shirt, bad idea maybe, accident (?) not really.
Virginia: Most Ammonia in ground water...One of the oldest and largest producers of tobacco in USA, Anhydrous Ammonia is used as a fertilizer for tobacco and other crops (Fun Factoid; exposure of tobacco to ammonia causes it to break down differently when burned, releasing more nicotine [the addictive agent] and more tars [the main lung clogger]; prior to WW1 tobacco addiction was minimal. The introduction of mechanized farming [including the heavy use of fertilizers] and mass produced little packets of pre-rolled cigarettes, aided the explosion of tobacco use. Organically grown tobacco is less addictive. The USA has know this for 50+ years.
Missouri: Yeah lotta Ozarks, can't drive fast.
North Dakota: Grew up there (Minot), fewest EVERYTHING
Idaho: Lowest carbon footprint/lowest public transportation funding...When pass through, didn't see an abundance of people there to need transportation or release carbon.
Colorado : "Avalanches and skinny people" can be read as "trapped in cabin for winter".

Do we have a lot of dentists here? New England has some high rates of cancer...wonder why?

The cancer thing is weird, but it could be an indicator of lower mortality rates in other areas, meaning people who live long enough have gotta die of something eventually... so why not cancer? But, no, I'd think that heart disease is the default equalizer there. Maybe it's a hangover from the older industrial period of the mid 20th C and all the toxins that come with it?

Anyway, this cherry picking sort of fun trivia graphic isn't going to give the kind of overall picture of environmental health hazards, so drawing conclusions based on selective data like this is meaningless. Given the rarity of some of these "worst" stats, all it would take is a single bad snowfall in Idaho to replace Colorado as the most likely place to die in an avalanche accident.

In a related thought, California is the place you're most likely to die in a Bruce Vilanch related accident.


the horror, the horror...

then, moving on to kentucky, they join in the cancerfest.

That's right, male bovine digestive byproduct.

Well, that's our electrifyingly good quality.

I'm shocked.

Wow. so it would appear that all those acres of organic lentils are causing a lot of sediment pollution in the water. What a shame, when Frank had those same acreages planted with dental floss, there was no such problem there

What's wrong with having the most airports per capita? Most places in Alaska you can't drive to. How else are you going to get there? We have to fly to our capitol, for heaven's sakes, unless we want to drive 800 miles and then spend a couple of days on a ferry.

What do you expect when you get a state populated with people of German, Polish, Czech, and Irish descent?

Why does New Hampshire have such a bad asbestos problem? Did they mine/quarry it there or something?

The state is huge, there aren't a lot of roads, and people gotta travel somehow.

I'll take the puddlejumper runways over paving the entire state under.