Green Daily

Men's Health has compiled some useful car pollution data in the United States, presumably between stomach crunches. The feature, called "Metrogrades: where our cars are killing us", looks at top ten American cities across eight categories including gasoline consumption, air quality, mass-transit and overall greenest drivers.

Seattle got on top of the green list, followed by Burlington, VT, Portland, OR, and Madison, WI.

But you're probably more interested in the worst offenders. No huge surprise that Texas, the second largest American state, is heavily represented. The Lone Star State got almost half of the top 10 gas guzzling list. Arlington tops the survey, followed a little further down by El Paso (third place), Fort Worth (sixth) and San Antonio (seventh). Texas also happens to be the largest energy consumer (overall and per capita) in the nation.

Yonkers, NY got second worst offender after Arlington. Other less-than-green cities, transportation-wise, include Riverside, CA (fourth place), Birmingham, AL (fifth), Indianapolis, IN (eighth), Tulsa, OK (ninth), and Fresno, CA (tenth).
The magazine compiled the data by digging through sources like the National Transit Database and the Energy Information Administration. Check out the nifty interactive map for even more top ten city lists and facts (like, Newark getting tops in public transportation with people using transit on a daily basis. Who knew?).