Editorial: Regulators let oil refineries avoid cutting smog. They must force them to clean up

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

49% : While the world focuses on the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, here in Southern California air quality officials will be meeting to decide how tough to get on the oil industry and its health-damaging pollution.
47% : Oil companies saved money avoiding modern pollution controls, but it came at the expense of public health.
44% : In 2015, the AQMD board brazenly rejected its own staff recommendation to overhaul the program in favor of a weaker plan put forth by the oil industry.
44% : For the sake of the planet and the health of local communities, we need much more stringent and direct regulation of oil industry pollution until we phase out fossil fuels entirely.

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