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Provo is, on average, the nation’s worst air polluter, study says. And Ogden is No. 2.

Provo is the worst polluting city in the United States, according to a new study, and Ogden is second on the list.

That’s according to the website MagnifyMoney.com, which compared the average household carbon footprint in the nation’s 200 largest metro areas and found households in the two Utah cities emitted an average of 10.55 and 10.16 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.

“Not surprisingly, we found that cities with larger carbon footprints tended to have more cars per household,” reads the report. “Households in Provo ... own an average of 2.