Claim: "Smog was invented in Los Angeles. It was. The name was invented. There was a fellow at Caltech and he came up with the idea and they called it smog."
Fact-check: Jerry Brown's hazy claim: L.A. 'invents' smog
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Chris Nichols
Date published: 2015-11-03T00:00:00