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>> The EPA is set to grant a waiver to let California use stricter rules then the federal government for truck emissions.
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> I hvent' read the link but this seems like an appropriate place to say
> that I watch reruns of Dragnet, including color episodes, and they start
> with pictures of Los Angeles ("I work here") and you can see the grey
> cloud of pollution that hang over the city back then. I hear that now > it's better.
That has gotten a lot better since the new pollution standards have gone into place in the PRC (People's Republic of California) and the old cars have largely been aged out. It has been a very long time since I have seen pictures of air pollution like that in Los Angles.
And "coal powered rolling firebomb cars/trucks" only moves the pollution to somewhere else.
A far, far better solution is hydrogen and natural gas fuel cell vehicles.