NewsRack: 'Air Policy' news in 'Air and Climate-Regional' topic for user flenvcenter

EPA fines cement company, orders new pollution controls	20.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 19, 2013 03:53PM MDT The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that Kansas-based Ash Grove Cement Co. will invest about $30 million in pollution controls at its nine Portland cement manufacturing plants — including one in Leamington, Utah — over Clean Air Act violations. The cement company also will pay a $2.5 million penalty, thanks to a settlement with the EPA and the U.S. Department of Justice. And it will spend $750,000 to address the effects of past emissions near several of its plants. “Toda... ...
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State panel backs clean-car plan as a smog solution	13.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 12, 2013 05:08PM MDT The state’s policy-setting Air Quality Board gave its endorsement Wednesday to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to clean up vehicles and the gasoline they use. In a telephonic meeting, the panel voted 5-0 to send a letter to EPA voicing strong support for the new standards, which would be phased in beginning in 2017. Utah’s air-pollution hot spots stand to benefit more than anywhere else in the nation from a federal clean-car proposal. And the board noted that the so-called T... ...
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Utah leaders fear new EPA smog rules	12.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Matt Canham The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 12, 2013 11:34AM MDT Washington • Utah officials worry the Environmental Protection Agency may set an unachievable smog standard that would choke the economy more than it would clean the air. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, led a hearing of the House’s environment subcommittee Wednesday where he said federal regulators should to take into account naturally occurring ozone that tends to be far higher in Western states than in the rest of the county. The EPA has set an acceptable ozone standard at 75 parts per billion and... ...
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Grass-roots group tripped up in fight against Sigurd power plant	11.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published Jun 11, 2013 01:01AM MDT Dick Cumiskey isn’t exactly sure what’s next, now that the state’s top environmental regulator snubbed his group’s latest effort to derail a power plant planned for Sigurd. He’s certain about one thing, though. His Sevier Citizens for Clean Air and Water is not about to quit fighting the Sevier Power Plant. To Cumiskey, a boat designer who retired to Sevier County, it’s beyond ridiculous for state regulators to sign off on a massive industrial facility — such as the 580-megawatt gas-fired power ... ...
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Tracking pollution	3.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Jun 2, 2013 04:19PM MDT Two levels of environmental bureaucracy are hastening to assure us that there is nothing worrisome about the fact that Utah’s largest polluters are 20 years late in filing some important paperwork. And, as far as the practical impact of the amount of pollution spewing from those refineries and industrial facilities, they may actually be right. But most people will have no way of knowing if the missing permits actually made a difference in the quality of the air we all breathe until the permits ... ...
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EPA air rules	1.6.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
Published Jun 1, 2013 01:01AM MDT We are often told that the air pollution problem on the Wasatch Front is due our geography and our love of cars, and there is not much we can do to improve it. This, at least, is what Gov. Gary Herbert and the Utah Legislature seem to be saying. But new rules from the Environmental Protection Agency, described by Subaru dealer Jeff Miller in his op-ed, “Embrace clean air standards” (Opinion, May 18), would make it so that Utahns emit less when we do have to drive. The EPA’s Tier 3 rules, which s... ...
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Tesoro to pay $1.1 million to settle claims it violated clean-air rules	31.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Steven Oberbeck The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 30, 2013 06:33PM MDT In what the Environmental Protection Agency describes as the largest penalty of its type in the 40-year history of the nation’s clean fuels program, Tesoro Corp. has agreed to pay $1.1 million to settle claims it violated the federal Clean Air Act by failing to properly monitor the production of gasoline at refineries in Utah and three other states. Tesoro’s Salt Lake City refinery and similar facilities in Mandan, N.D.; Anacortes, Wash.; and Kenai, Alaska; failed to keep adequate gasoline produ... ...
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Reddy Ice to pay penalty and improve conditions at Denver plant	31.5.2013	Headlines: All Headlines
Dallas-based Reddy Ice Corp. has agreed to pay a $61,500 penalty and correct deficiencies associated with the risk-management program at its Denver facility, the U.
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Environmental groups decry lack of pollution permits for Utah refineries	28.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 28, 2013 11:28AM MDT Some of the biggest polluters in Utah — the five refineries clustered at the Salt Lake-Davis County line — have been allowed to operate for years without a basic permit required under the Clean Air Act. In fact, these so-called “Title V” permits haven’t been in place for nearly two decades. The reason? The state Division of Air Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been engaged in a bureaucratic quarrel since 1994 that has left the permits for the refineries and four other fa... ...
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Moench: Big Utah polluters can cut emissions	25.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Brian Moench Published May 25, 2013 01:01AM MDT The Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment has launched a campaign that every Utah resident should be able to endorse: “Clean Air, Clean Energy, Clean Future.” The relationship between the three is obvious. Meanwhile, the Utah Division of Air Quality recently announced that the state implementation plan, their strategy to reduce our severe winter particulate pollution, won’t do anywhere near enough. Then, DAQ announced that virtually the entire state has a serious problem with elevated ozone ... ...
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Holly refinery cuts pollution in updated expansion plan	23.5.2013	Salt Lake Tribune
by Judy Fahys The Salt Lake Tribune Published May 22, 2013 03:27PM MDT Utahns will be asked soon to weigh in on HollyFrontier Corp.’s latest plans to expand its Woods Cross refinery — plans that include more pollution controls. The Utah Division of Air Quality is revisiting Holly’s expansion application, which this time includes new electric-powered compressor motors instead of natural gas-powered ones. The change, which Dallas-based Holly says will cut key air pollutants by 172 tons a year, is expected to be put out for public review beginning next month. “We are ... ...
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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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Could Supreme Court stall climate change regulations?	16.5.2013	Denver Post: All Political News
With a barrage of legal briefs, a coalition of business groups and Republican-leaning states are taking their fight against Obama administration climate change regulations to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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It's the cars made in Brazil that are killers	12.5.2013	azcentral.com \| business
SAO PAULO -- The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of an economy in full bloom that now boasts the fourth largest auto market in the world. What happens once those vehicles hit the streets, however, is shaping up as a national tragedy, experts say, with thousands of Brazilians dying every year in auto accidents that in many cases shouldn't have proven fatal.
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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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Congress quickly fixes the wrong problem	30.4.2013	From the Blogs
Airport delays take priority over Indian health and education
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