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American Experience
Season 37 · Episode 4
Clearing the Air: The War on Smog
2.453mAugust 26, 2025
A chronicle of how Los Angeles' devastating smog problem in the 1940s and 50s led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act.
Episodes
- Episode 1Forgotten Hero: Walter White and The NAACP
- Episode 2Change, Not Charity: The Americans with Disabilities Act
- Episode 3Mr. Polaroid
- Episode 4Clearing the Air: The War on Smog
- Episode 5Hard Hat Riot
- Episode 6Kissinger (1): The Necessity of Power
- Episode 7Kissinger (2): The Opportunist
- Episode 8Bombshell