The EPA noticed a large increase in the output of greenhouse gases due to automobile traffic between 1996 and 1998 in California. When the agency looked at the data by city, it noticed that the score for Los Angeles was significantly higher than that for the rest of the other major cities in California combined. How was the city skewing the distribution?

facts: the 14th amendment

the 14th amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws.

the 14th amendment was intended to protect the rights of former slaves after the american civil war.

the 14th amendment was approved by congress in june of 1866 and ratified by the states on july 9, 1868.

the 14th amendment establishes that all persons born in the united states are citizens and are guaranteed all the rights of citizenship.

the 14th amendment establishes that the law protects all citizens equally.

in this case the passage of the 14th amendment   that was violated was the last part in which it states that there is equal protection of the law.