L.A. began 2020 with a clean-air streak but ended with its worst smog in decades

The year began with Los Angeles enjoying a 21-day stretch of smog-free days that overlapped with the start of coronavirus stay-at-home orders, fueling hopes that dramatic cuts in driving would at least clean the air.

That turned out to be wishful thinking. The year 2020 will instead go down as one of Southern California’s smoggiest in decades.

Read more at the Los Angeles Times.