New Jerseyans love their cars and 90 per cent use them to get to and from work each day. Simply stated, to live and work in New Jersey means you must drive. Then there are the natural wind currents that always have and always will blow in from all the states to the west carrying tons of so-called pollutants. In New Jersey, they discovered that, when it gets cold, the system doesn't work at all. As a lifelong resident, I can tell you it gets cold here, especially in the winter.
Rain seems to have a bad effect on it as well.
It rains in New Jersey too. To its credit, the newspaper never liked the idea. The drumbeat of propaganda about the state's air quality, however, goes back to a previous Governor's administration led by a fanatical environmentalist. The voters could hardly wait to vote Jim Florio, a Democrat, out of office, replacing him with Christie Whitman. There is no way to be in compliance because the EPA will always move the goal posts farther down the field.