It was my understanding that the Michigan emissions test (enforcement) program was repealed after a clas action suit by the citiczenry was able to prove that the regulating body had been fooling with the air quality test results to justify the continuation of the program and their jobs. There might have been something about government generated business for the test centers too.
I suppose 'fooling with' is a poor choice, the way I heard it was they checked the air quality 365/year and only put the worst ones on the list.
They were also able to prove in court that the air quality improvement was due to the combination of the newer vehicles being built to run cleaner and the newer fuels being formulated to burn cleaner, not because the testing program said it was cleaner.
Or so I was told by a buddie that is from Michigan and still has friends and family there.
But he lives here so I have no idea how many people this folklore has been filtered through before it got to me.
