Articles
Car care = air care
Passing an emissions test has been a requirement for registering a passenger car or truck in Salt Lake County since April 1, 1984. Nonetheless, pollution coming from the tailpipes …
Transportation
Cold starts
Tips on how to avoid that moment when cars produce the most pollution Did you know that 75% of the pollution coming from your tailpipe occurs in the first 50 seconds your car is ru …
Transportation
If you’re in the market for a new car…
Read this first We’re fast approaching car buying season. Now is the perfect time to learn how you can consider air quality when deciding on which make and model to buy. There are …
Environmental Politics, Health
The air knows no boundaries
Prevailing winds carry ozone to Utah from upwind states as well as across the Pacific This time of year there is a lot of buzz about ozone air pollution. Ozone plagues areas of Uta …
Environmental Politics, Health
Good news: Utah’s air quality is improving!
Caveat: It’s an ongoing process In 2006, the EPA tightened the health standard for PM2.5 pollution—the fine particulate matter pollution that builds during winter inversions and ca …
Environmental Politics, Health
Meet the dust doctor
Atmospheric scientist Kevin Perry knows what blows from the Great Salt Lake Last year I wrote about dust that often blows in from the southwest, plaguing areas of the Wasatch Front …
Environmental Politics
“Rolling coal”: how to make bad air worse
Rolling coal” is the practice of intentionally blowing a plume of thick black exhaust from a diesel truck. To make this happen, someone has modified the emissions controls to incr …
Environmental Politics, Health
You can legislate the air!
Air quality-related proposals for Utah’s 2019 legislative session Tier 3 gasoline has made many headlines in the past year and is touted as one of the most crucial strategies for c …
Health
What’s your air quality IQ?
Love your lungs, but don’t stop there! Love your family’s and neighbors’ lungs too Wintertime inversion season is upon us. The most important thing you can do to protect yourself t …
Environmental Politics
The air, somewhere, is improving
Logan is the first of the PM2.5 nonattainment areas in Utah to meet federal air quality standards Last month, Logan, Utah achieved what often seems impossible: a clean air rating f …
Environmental Politics
Alternative is becoming mainstream
November is Alternative Fuel Vehicle Awareness Month in Utah. “Alternative” means a fuel other than gasoline or diesel for powering motor vehicles. Manufacturers currently offer ov …
Environmental Politics, Health, Transportation
Utahns are turning the key: Eleven years in, the Idle Free campaign has caught hold
Do you ever find yourself sitting in your car with the engine running? Sure, we are probably all guilty of idling from time to time. Idling, however, is one of the easiest behavior …
Who Needs Clean Air, Anyway?
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency loosens protections affecting Utahns If you feel like the health of our environment is under siege these days, you’re not alone. Here’s a qu …
Environmental Politics
Summer Ozone, pt.2
Last month we learned about summer air pollution and what we can do to reduce emissions that lead to ozone formation. Here’s how the EPA is helping Utah meet goals for cleaner air. …
