Quote: What are you talking about? LA is an air pollution success story. Even with population growth and an increased number of vehicles the level of air pollution has dropped steadily since stringent controls were enacted 30 years ago. And I don't mean the Federal Clean Air Act but the California version.
That's great. But I think to some extent that demonstrates the success of a federalist viewpoint.
LA has more cars than, say, Sandpoint, Idaho. So California needs different air quality standards than Idaho.
If the federal government were the ones enacting all the standards you would end up with either (a) too lax standards for LA; or (b) too stringent standards for Sandpoint.
Under federalism, each state has discretion to apply the appropriate standard it needs.
