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What I never see addressed by CARB is the use of allergy-friendly
plants to mitigate roadway air pollution.
As you know, there is a dangerous 300 yard "pollution zone" next to
major highways, freeways; people who live in this zone suffer
increases in dementia, autism, allergy, asthma, and heart disease.
To mitigate some, or much, of this roadway pollution, plants can be
used effectively; however, all plants are not equally valuable for
this effort. It makes no sense to use plants already known to
trigger pollen allergies and allergic asthma. Likewise it doesn't
make much sense to use known BVOC producers.
The use of allergy-friendly plants, and of the OPALS plant-allergy
scale for selection, has been included in the State of California
Public Health's 7 year Plan for Asthma. CARB should start to
address this, and to fund it.
For more info,
see:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPALS_(Ogren_Plant_Allergy_Scale)

and also:
www.safegardening.org