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The Forgotten Struggle To Ban Gas-Powered Cars in the 1960s
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. Nicholas Petris, born to Greek immigrants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1923, could remember a time when electric trucks were a common sight on the streets of …