Clearing the Air in Los Angeles

Clearing the Air in Los Angeles

The Fight Against Smog

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Publication Date: 8th July 2024

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 battl... Read More

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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 battl... Read More

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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.

Details
  • Pages: 160
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Narrative
  • Publication Date: 8th July 2024
  • State: California
  • ISBN: 9781467156745
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
    SCIENCE / History
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)
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Solving the Mystery of Smog

"Clearing the Air in Los Angeles uses an organizational development lens to describe how concerned people uncovered the root cause of Los Angeles’ thick silver-blue smog —a serious problem for sixty years, from 1943 to 2003, and the changes they made to eliminate it, changes that to this day also affect the nation and much of the world."

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Author Bio

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.

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.

  • Pages: 160
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
  • Imprint: The History Press
  • Series: Narrative
  • Publication Date: 8th July 2024
  • State: California
  • ISBN: 9781467156745
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology
    SCIENCE / History
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)

Solving the Mystery of Smog

"Clearing the Air in Los Angeles uses an organizational development lens to describe how concerned people uncovered the root cause of Los Angeles’ thick silver-blue smog —a serious problem for sixty years, from 1943 to 2003, and the changes they made to eliminate it, changes that to this day also affect the nation and much of the world."

NJSS Journal

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.