Clearing the Air in Los Angeles: The Fight Against Smog - Paperback

by Carl R. Oliver (Author)

Solving the mystery of California's most persistent smog.Once known as the Smog Capital of the World, Los Angeles has changed "air you can see" into "air you can breathe." While the fight to eliminate pollution in the city continues, modern smog is not the thick, oppressive, silver-blue haze that drove people to move out of Los Angeles altogether during the mid-twentieth century. Professor Arie Haagen-Smit became a key leader in the fight against smog after making a crucial discovery--what caused it.

Join author Carl R. Oliver as he delves into the sixty-year battle to clear the air in Los Angeles.

Author Biography

Carl Oliver is the author of Plane Talk: Aviators' and Astronauts' Own Stories and Panama's Canal and coauthor of Business Ethics: The Path to Certainty. He has a BA from Stanford, an MBA from California Lutheran and an MA and a PhD from Fielding Graduate. He began his career as a photojournalist and served more than twenty years in the U.S. Air Force. He has been a faculty member at Stanford University, Loyola Marymount University, the University of Redlands and California Lutheran University.