By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
For years, California has been a leader of environmental policy -- writing it's own stricter rules for pesticide controls, air pollution and waste disposal as it sees fit, regardless of whether the nation is following along.
In the 1990s, the state pushed the leading edge of a technology that many of us wish had been pursued more aggressively when it hosted a test of modern electric cars, a fairly successful experiment that was regrettably shoved into neutral by U.S. automakers.
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