California was given that permission in the first place. They didn't live through the horrendous smog and the special circumstances California faces.

which was to L.A. and the first couple mornings there, I noticed it was "foggy" and figured - well this is by the ocean so... like the east coast - a "marine layer". But then I realized the "fog" was yellowish and then it finally connected!

The city sits up against and meanders through the hills/mountains and the general air flow is west to east. So those hills/mountains can and do block the air flow and just won't allow the smog to mix out.

to Milwaukee. From about 6 miles out you started to notice a different smell to the air and as you got another couple of miles you could look at the sky ahead of you and there was a long brown layer hanging in the sky and that's how you knew you were getting close to Milwaukee. It used to give us headaches. Some of it was transportation but much of it was unregulated industry. The smell was a combo of things and maybe the worst was the very large rendering plants and tanneries. So you had the smell of the dead animals as they were being hauled in, the smell of them cooking and then the acrid fumes from the tanneries who processed the hides. Mixed in with coal dust, chemicals from metal processing and the wind coming in off the lake that brought the smell of dead fish and the raw sewage overflow that got pumped into the lake.

and any trip down to the sports stadiums and arenas required us to go right past them. That meant being forced to promptly roll the car windows up as fast as you could!! I felt for ANYONE who lived down there in South Philly across from that.



Most of the refineries down there are gone but there are some just outside the city in Chester, etc.