At the close of the summer of love on August 30, 1967, California Governor Ronald Reagan approved and signed the Mulford-Carrell Act that created California Air Resources Board or “CARB.” The next year, Reagan’s CARB was provided its first waiver from the newly minted federal Clean Air Act for California to set its own vehicle emission standards. The goal of these Reagan-led actions? CARB was to protect the public’s health from toxic air pollution. Reagan’s CARB also had the goal of promoting and inspiring novel means of cutting air pollution.