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Smoglandia Pt 4: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT, BESTIES?

Smoglandia Pt 4: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT, BESTIES?

Update: 2025-11-20
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Well, it took long enough. We finally realized that smog didn’t stop at some city limits line … that burning the family trash in the backyard incinerator wasn’t a good idea … and California started putting muscle into getting the air clean. Governor Ronald Reagan made the Caltech “father of smog” the head of the new state air resources board, TV stations began reporting smog alerts along with weather forecasts, and one stubborn LA county supervisor started his ten-year letter-writing crusade scolding the Big Four automakers about cleaner-burning engines. And a Louisiana gal named Seraphine was tooling around smoggy LA in her Triumph convertible and gas mask. Spoiler: she still lives here.

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Smoglandia Pt 4: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT, BESTIES?

Smoglandia Pt 4: SCIENCE AND GOVERNMENT, BESTIES?

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