Energy & Climate
How California’s smog fight and car rules helped clean U.S. air?
California built its reputation as a clean-air pioneer not through voluntary action by automakers but through a legal mechanism most Americans have never heard of: a federal waiver that lets one state write stricter car pollution rules than Washington requires. That authority, rooted in the Clean Air Act, turned California into a de facto national […]
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