Healthline: Part 1 of : California Climate and Health, Part I: Drought Stirs Up Trouble for States Air Quality
The policies that made California a model of how big, developed economies can thrive while safeguarding the environment did not originate in some statewide sense of kumbaya.
They were a desperate response to serious air quality problems in Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and Fresno.
Bad air is a serious drag on public health, driving up rates of cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, and death....