How is it possible that the greenest state in the country is also the dirtiest? Apparently, more people die of air pollution in California than car crashes (3,812 vs 2,521). How does the hippiest, tree hugging state with the most liberal environmental views allow things to get this bad? Wasn't California the first state to regulate vehicle exhaust? Didn't they set the nation's first air quality standards? Don't they have their own air quality standards, which are even more stringent than what the federal government imposes? The answer to all of these are "yes". That being said, one must wonder if environmental policies really work. How can billions of dollars that have been spent there over the last 50 years to keep the air clean result in statistics like this?
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20081113/D94E0KJG0.html
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