beginning of our vanquishing of air pollution really started, i would say, six or seven years after hagen smith's landmark stories and other groups, even the car companies, begrudge really admitting their tailpipe exhaust was the source of the problem. 1960 saw the beginning of the california legislature requiring cars to have retrofitting equipment. mufflers, filter doors, those types of things. thleslature got more and more involved. people were demand dying, espeal mothers solutions and the big breakthrough came would california won right to impose stricter tailpipe standards on vehicles in state than the rest of the country. detroit, michigan, led by john dingell, did not like this idea. other states didn't like this idea, but we banded together with massachusetts, new york. robert kennedy was instrumental in giving advice, and we won with something called the ah emissions waiver, which gave us this right. the lyndon johnson administration also brought an antitrust case against the car makers for conspiring and deceiving and tricking california unions that believe they were working on the pro