Oct 1, 2023 · The sordid tale of L.A.’s forever war on smog Windows down, gas mask on. Sera Segal-Alsberg brought out the heavy duty protection during an L.A. smog alert in June 1979.

On July 26, 1943, in the midst of World War II, Los Angeles was attacked -- not by a foreign enemy, but a domestic one -- smog. The Los Angeles Times reported that a pall of smoke and …

The Great Smog of London, or Great Smog of 1952, was a severe air pollution event that affected London, England, in December 1952. A period of unusually cold weather, combined with an …

Jul 1, 2019 · Smog is getting worse in Southern California, and the stakes are high for health and the economy. Officials say it’ll take $14 billion to fix the problem.

Oct 1, 2019 · Angelenos wipe away tears caused by an eye-stinging blanket of smog, October 1964. Smith Griswold pushed past the group of newsmen and stepped into the tiny …

Jun 27, 1974 · Following World War II, air pollution captured the public's attention, and orchard heaters, like smoking diesel trucks and open burning at garbage dumps, were a significant and …

Jul 2, 2019 · Yes, by raising temperatures, climate change is making air pollution harder to control. It’s speeding up the chemical reactions that form smog. [Read the story: “The war on …

Jul 8, 2019 · The war on smog has been called one of America's greatest environmental successes. Decades of emissions-cutting regulations under a bipartisan law—the 1970 Clean …

Aug 23, 1993 · From 1982 to 1992 overall U.S. smog incidence dropped by 8 percent, even as population and production rose. Carbonmonoxide pollution went down 30 percent; airborne …

Smog is also a lachrymator – later ascribed to the presence of peroxyacetyl nitrate. Haagen-Smit published his work on the origins of Los Angeles smog in the early 1950’s (e.g. Haagen-Smit, …