A California crisis over auto emissions.

The article focuses on the heating argument between California and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It says that as 28 other smog-prone states authorized EPA's annual emission test program, the California legislature, fearful from political backlash from motorists, refuses to require its 13 million automobiles of such program. It tells that EPA then moved on September 8, 1980 to impose sanctions that would cut annual 850 million dollars of California's federal highway and sewer funds.