Climate Change in Los Angeles
Environmental woes are nothing new to Los Angeles. “Nineteen-fifties L.A. was a pretty horrible place to be breathing,” said Paul Wennberg to the crowd at the Huntington Library. Pollution was high. Students moving in the fall wouldn’t realize the San Gabriel Mountains existed until the winter. Protests arose across town, including in Pasadena. The poor air quality made for quick action. As one CalTech professor discovered the chemistry of smog – proving that it came from car emissions interacting with the chemistry of the atmosphere – the state government …
