Not to get my smug on, but I feel much better knowing that I'm limiting my contribution to these events by no longer driving an ICE vehicle. In my home state, just 40 minutes away from where I am, an oil pipeline spill occurred, taking almost 2 years to clean up.
Go ahead and "get your smug on": you are paying for the privilege to do so. When the inversion is bad here and the air turns greenish-brown, the county asks us to limit our driving. I feel good when I pull out of my driveway knowing that I am not contributing to the mess. While most of our electricity is coal generated, it is about 100 miles south where the inversion factors we live with in the north have no affect.