Tagged: Holly-Frontier

Environment & Public Lands
7:00 am
Thu February 28, 2013

Clearing the Air: Big Industry

Credit Dan Bammes
The Holly-Frontier oil refinery in West Bountiful, UT

The air pollution that we can see suspended in the cold air trapped during Utah’s infamous temperature inversions is called PM 2.5 – particulate matter 2.5 microns in diameter or smaller.  Just how much of that comes from large industrial polluters is a subject of some dispute, along with just what should be done about it. Dan Bammes has the third in our series of reports on Clearing the Air.

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