By Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times

In recent years, it’s become abundantly clear Southern California’s war on smog hinges on the of adoption electric vehicles. And, for the first time in a generation, we may be headed in the wrong direction.

Southern California’s persistently sunny climate and mountains work together to form and trap smog over the region. And that the leading source of smog-forming pollution is the same today as it was decades ago: gas-guzzling cars and trucks.

California regulators have made tremendous progress in the last few decades when it comes to curbing tailpipe pollution; it was the first state to adopt engine emission standards and mandate catalytic converters, regulations that were later adopted nationwide. But Southern California has yet to achieve any federa

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