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Shell's preliminary ozone monitoring near Hayden detects no violation of federal standards	21.5.2013	Steamboat Pilot
Routt County Environmental Health Director Mike Zopf said he would make a 2013 budget request that the county seek a cost-share with the city of Steamboat Springs for an ozone monitoring program. The program is estimated to cost $175,000 for three years.
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Utah video contest zooms in on clearing the smog	18.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 17, 2013 03:19PM MDT When Emily Kam learned about the chance to do something good for the environment for her new hometown, she jumped on it. She enlisted her mother to shoot the video and made a spare-the-air public-service announcement just as hot, sunny weather threatens to plunge Utah into the high ozone days of summer. Her video, “Take the Time: Clean Salt Lake City’s Air,” is the first YouTube entry submitted so far in a Clean Air Month contest. A riff on taking mass transit, Kam’s short is part of a Utah Depa... ...
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Lawsuit would force Utah to cut winter pollution	17.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 02:59PM MDT WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court in Denver on Wednesday, saying the agency failed to uphold the Clean Air Act and to protect Utahns’ health by not making the state clean up fine-particle pollution. Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ climate and energy program director, said state regulators are putting the public health behind the interests of polluters. “Clean air delayed is clean air denied,” Nichols said in a news release.... ...
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Lawsuit would force Utah to clean winter pollution	16.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 16, 2013 07:53AM MDT WildEarth Guardians filed suit against the Environmental Protection Agency in the U.S. District Court in Denver on Wednesday, saying the agency failed to uphold the Clean Air Act and to protect Utahns’ health by not making the state clean up fine-particle pollution. Jeremy Nichols, WildEarth Guardians’ climate and energy program director, said state regulators are putting the public health behind the interests of polluters. “Clean air delayed is clean air denied,” Nichols said in a news release.... ...
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Suncor spill still taints South Platte, proves benzene a tough mop up	16.5.2013	Denver Post: News: Local
Suncor spill still taints South Platte, proves benzene a tough mop up
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Dirty skies	15.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 14, 2013 06:10PM MDT Utah: 85,000 square miles of high desert, with 80 percent of its population crowded along the Wasatch Front. One would expect that, outside of the populous I-15 corridor, a land such as that would have miles upon miles of pure, healthy air. One would be wrong. In trying to establish a baseline for the amount of air pollutants present in our skies — searching in particular for the lung-scourging mixture known as ozone — the Utah Division of Air Quality has stumbled across the startling and very ... ...
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Smog isn't just an urban problem in Utah	11.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 11, 2013 12:12PM MDT Rural Utah sometimes suffers stunningly high summer smog. For instance, the mountain community of Parleys Summit at the edge of the Wasatch Back had more high-ozone days last summer than Salt Lake City, the Utah Division of Air Quality found. So did no-traffic Badger Island and even low-traffic Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. Plus, the smog was bad enough — in the redrock deserts, the range and the mountains — that, had those spots been part of an official pollution count,... ...
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Smog not just urban problem	11.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 10, 2013 05:36PM MDT Rural Utah sometimes suffers stunningly high summer smog. For instance, the mountain community of Parleys Summit at the edge of the Wasatch Back had more high-ozone days last summer than Salt Lake City, the Utah Division of Air Quality found. So did no-traffic Badger Island and even low-traffic Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. Plus, the smog was bad enough — in the redrock deserts, the range and the mountains — that, had those spots been part of an official pollution count,... ...
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Stunning smog in wild and rural Utah	11.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 10, 2013 05:36PM MDT Rural Utah sometimes suffers stunningly high summer smog. For instance, the mountain community of Parleys Summit at the edge of the Wasatch Back had more high-ozone days last summer than Salt Lake City, the Utah Division of Air Quality found. So did no-traffic Badger Island and even low-traffic Antelope Island in the middle of the Great Salt Lake. Plus, the smog was bad enough — in the redrock deserts, the range and the mountains — that, had those spots been part of an official pollution count,... ...
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China struggles with choking air pollution	10.5.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
BEIJING — Early on in Beijing's winter of pollution-wracked discontent, one of China's biggest power companies, Huadian, turned off the coal scrubbers at its Datong plants and let
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Our lost civilization	8.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published May 7, 2013 05:05PM MDT If, 10,000 years from now, visiting archeologists wonder just what it was that caused the residents of the soaring culture of the Wasatch Front to suddenly abandon their homes just when the community seemed to be thriving, a simple look around won’t do much to explain the riddle. But if they excavate the archives of the Utah Division of Air Quality, those future explorers of the past will find that the technological success of our region was so incompatible with the natural lay of the land that... ...
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China’s bad air prompting many expats to rethink career moves	5.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Louise Watt The Associated Press Published May 4, 2013 08:58PM MDT Beijing • Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker. But after air pollution led to several stays in the hospital and finally a written warning from her doctor telling her she needed to leave, Small packed up and left for Thailand. In doing so, the Ford Motor Co. executive became another expatriate to leave China because of the country’s notoriously bad air. Other top executives whose careers would be boosted by a stint in the world’... ...
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california-beach-bonfires-fire-pits-huntington-newport	5.5.2013	azcentral.com \| news
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Utah governor declares Clean Air Month	3.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 2, 2013 04:07PM MDT Gov. Gary Herbert urged all Utahns on Thursday to do what they can to reduce air pollution. “We all ought to be aware,” he said. “We ought to be concerned, thinking about ways to reduce pollution.” Proclaiming May as Clean Air Month at a news conference at a home across the street from the Capitol building, he noted that simple steps can add up. Ideas he promoted include: Updating gas cans made before 2009 • Replacing an old one with a new one prevents 4 pounds of volatile organic compounds (... ...
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Governor Gary Herbert declares Clean Air Month for Utah	3.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 2, 2013 04:07PM MDT Gov. Gary Herbert urged all Utahns Thursday to do what they can to reduce air pollution. “We all ought to be aware,” he said. “We ought to be concerned, thinking about ways to reduce pollution. Proclaiming May as Clean Air Month at a news conference at a home across the street from the Capitol building, he noted that simple steps can add up. Ideas he promoted include: • Updating gas cans made before 2009. Replacing an old one with a new one prevents 4 pounds of volatile organic compounds (VOC) —... ...
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Gasp. More pollution cuts needed for Utah to meet clean-air standards.	2.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 1, 2013 06:02PM MDT Solving the Wasatch Front’s winter smog just got harder — at least on paper. That’s because updated number-crunching shows that the clean-air fixes regulators already have proposed won’t do as much as originally expected for the spikes of PM2.5, which sometime shrouds northern Utah in a brown fog for weeks at a time in winter. In fact, Utah County needs to cut its wintertime pollution by another 20 percent, and a five-county area around the Salt Lake Valley needs to reduce emissions by 10 percen... ...
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China career boost can come with health risks	30.4.2013	Denver Post: National News Headlines
BEIJING—Whitney Foard Small loved China and her job as a regional director of communications for a top automaker.
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Colorado program gets dirty autos off the road, funds scholarships	25.4.2013	Denver Post: Business
Colorado program gets dirty autos off the road, funds scholarships
Air pollution in Utah gets ‘F’ grades from American Lung Association	24.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Apr 24, 2013 08:22AM MDT Two spots in Utah are among the nation’s worst when it comes to spikes of pollution, says the American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2013” ranking. The famous episodes of high microscopic soot pollution, known as PM2.5, made the corridor from Salt Lake County to Weber County the sixth most serious in the nation, while the Cache Valley was 10th, the group said. The health-advocacy organization found some bright spots nationwide. Its latest report noted communities have progressed in reduci... ...
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Earth Day 2013: The worst is still to come	20.4.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Tim Wagner Published Apr 20, 2013 01:01AM MDT In his book The Worst Hard Time, author Timothy Egan chronicled what was the worst man-made environmental disaster of modern civilization, the decade-long Great American Dust Bowl. It was the first clear signal that a large part of the United States could be rendered uninhabitable if its citizens and government disregarded environmental consequences, common sense and science in the pursuit of economic gain. Unfortunately, the lesson that should have been learned from the Dust Bowl — that environ... ...
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