Living Clean in Santa Fe While St. Louis Has Blues

I guess this shouldn't be too surprising. From Living Clean in Santa Fe While St. Louis Has Blues:

According to a survey conducted by the magazine Organic Style, Santa Fe has the best scores of any city in the United States for being free of toxins in the environment, while St. Louis, Missouri, was at the bottom of the list, at slot number 125.
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The top five cities in the survey were Santa Fe; Rapid City, South Dakota; Grand Junction, Colorado; Olympia, Washington; and Fort Myers, Florida. At the bottom of the list were Cleveland, New York, Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis.
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But having a healthy environment does not necessarily mean having a healthy life.


The article cites the case of Robert Weinhold, the author of a book on healthy metropolitan areas. He moved to Santa Fe only to discover that he became ill in the city with the healthiest environment in the United States because he was allergic to the plants and dust of the high desert.

Santa Fe was looking good until that last bit about allergies...