Chip Jacobs
Historian and co-author of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles, interviewed in the episode about L.A.'s smog history and responses.
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Jun 26, 2018 • 40min
Fighting Smog in Los Angeles
Chip Jacobs, historian and co-author of Smogtown, gives a concise bio as a scholar of Los Angeles pollution history. He traces the 1943 smog crisis, scientific breakthroughs that linked cars to smog, mobile air sampling and public outrage, and the rise of catalytic converters and laws that changed national policy.
