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Old 04-30-2020, 05:29 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jjackstone View Post
Yes pollution is likely worse in California than most other states. But California has a population of over 40,000,000 people. The next closest is Texas at around 30,000,000 and a few states at about half of that. Why do you think they have tougher standards? And yes the standards do make a difference as you noted in your post. I remember how brown the skies were back in the 70's in LA. Not nearly as bad now.
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I have no doubt it's better. But they do rank worst across the board. When you play stupid games like cram million upon millions of people into a city and then sprawl the suburbs out further than the eye can see you win stupid prizes like worst air quality in the nation.
All I wonder is how long are they going to do the same thing and expect a different result before they fix it?
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